What is that beautiful smell? Wouldn’t you like visitors to your garden to exclaim such pleasure? By researching the best fragrant flowers for your region and arranging those flowers in strategic locations you can let your visitors follow their nose through your lovely landscape. And when you have custom markers for plants in your garden you can be sure that they can identify those fragrant plants by name. Plant markers can answer those identification questions in your garden without breaking the silence of a serene and calming landscape.
If you live in the South, you have multiple choices of colorful and fragrant flowers in which you can add to your landscape design. An online article in Better Homes and Gardens (BHG) lists their top three picks for the best fragrant plants for Southern gardeners. Their choices include the following:
- Fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans) This plant is also known as “sweet olive” or “tea olive.” It blooms in the spring and fall.
- Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus) This plant blooms in the summer
- August lily (Hosta plantaginea) This plant blooms in the late summer each afternoon
Choosing a fragrant plant that blooms for a prolonged period or that will bloom in both spring and fall, like the fragrant olive pick from BHG experts, will offer you more fragrant days in your yard. Planting a fragrant plant will not only fill your yard with a lovely scent, but will enhance your whole neighborhood when the breeze lifts that fragrance right over your fence. With custom markers for plants the neighbors can crane their neck over your fence and identify that lovely scent.
You may also want to choose your plants by the type of fragrance that they emit—just as you would a pleasurable perfume. A beautiful fragrance to one person may be a smelly stench to another, so it’s best to do some research on whether your yard will smell fruity or musky. Fragrant plants can offer orchard smells like the apple-strawberry-scented Carolina allspice. The August lily emits a scent similar to honeysuckle. Most fragrant plant descriptions will disclose their fragrance, but do some research before you go to a nursery and just pick a plant that merely says “fragrant” blossoms.
Placing your fragrant plants strategically in your yard will allow your fragrances to blend with others or stand on their own. You may want to experiment to see what plants work well in groupings—like a fragrant bouquet. Or, you may choose to offer each of your fragrant plants their own air space so they do not have to compete with other heavy-scented plants. Your slender custom markers for plants can work well in groupings of plants or identifying a sole plant.
Kincaid Plant Markers can help your visitors answer their question of what lovely fragrance is wafting through the air in your garden. With one glance, our slender classic silver markers can inform without distracting from the beauty of the plant. With our assortment of stainless steel plant markers you can choose different styles of stakes and different print labels to identify the plants in your yard.
