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Article: Summer scents: create a soothing world of fragrance in your backyard.(Planting Plan)(related article: 12 ways to use perfumed plants)
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- Sunset
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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During the warm months, aromatherapy should be simple. No need to heat oil or light candles. Just walk outside, take a deep breath, and inhale the perfume of your plants. Not smelling anything? Now's the time to remedy that. Some of the most intensely fragrant flowers on the planet--gardenia, jasmine, honeysuckle, tuberose--need summer's heat to flourish. Now is when you're most likely to find them in nurseries and when they like to be planted.
Put in something to enchant your nose everywhere you walk and wherever you stop and sit. Edge a path with lavender or dianthus. Surround a garden bench with heliotrope or aromatic foliage plants like scented geraniums. Put ...