Fragrant Flowers

Fragrant Flowers - Our Top Ten List

Fragrant flowers are not only pleasing to the eye, but when you send flowers, choose fragrant flowers that will leave a lovely fragrance long after the initial flower gift has been received, admired and adored. Flowers make us smile for so many delightful reasons, and when you send flowers or plan your next garden, you might want to consider fragrant flowers when making your choice.

Of course, roses, the scented queens of flowerdom, are the most famous fragrant flowers, but everyone has their favorite flower. If you choose roses, you'll have a lot of decisions to make as roses have so many varieties and scents.

For everyone else, we have chosen a top ten list of our very favorite fragrant flowers that you can use when making your decisions.

1. Roses - Who has ever been able to resist sniffing this irrisistible fragrant flower? I love to smell roses because their fragrance is as varied as the colors. All roses are not created equally, so be sure to sniff (with delight) until you find just the right combination of beauty and fragrance.

2. Gardenias - These graceful fragrant flowers all look the same and all smell the same and that makes for an incredible aura of heavenly fragrance. This pretty fragrant flower is always a smart choice.

3. Jasmine - Sweet, sweet jasmine. You would never guess these delicate fragrant flowers possess such a powerful, syrupy scent. Delicate, tiny and filled with luscious perfume, the jasmine fragrant flower is a winner.

4. Carnations - The fragrant flowers carnations have a spicy and sweet aroma. It's serene fragrance can take you by surprise as you walk by, beckoning you to look back to find where that wonderful fragrance came from. Carnations have a wonderful lingering aroma that will fill your house or office.

5. Lilies - These fragrant flowers are perfect as huge bouquets of fresh flowers. Place in any room and you will be greeted, time after time, with their lovely aroma as you enter the room. Their gorgeous, large petals are beautiful and their scent will be remembered long after they have faded.

6. Lavender - These fragrant flowers have long been treasured for their powerful fragrance. Plant along your front porch and be greeting with the spicy and sweet fragrance everytime you open the door. Place pretty lavender flowers in drawers, closets, pillows and wherever your want that fresh and dreamy aroma to capture your imagination.

7. Sweet Peas - A treasured delight, the fragrant flowers of sweet peas are one of the most delicate and yet, powerfully fragrant flowers you will find. Adored for their lovely pastel shades, sweet pea flowers have sweetened the air of flower gardens for generations and continue to be favorites.

8. Freesia - So very sweet, the fragrant flowers of freesias are so pleasing that they are often used in cosmetics, hair and shampoo. If you can't decide which fragrant flower to send, the popular scent of freesias are a safe choice.

9. Honeysuckle - The fragrant flowers of honeysuckle flowers, smell as sweet as honey. Once planted, this hardy flowering bush needs little care, yet it will produce pretty and bright fragrant flowers that smell honey-sweet year after year.

10.Sweet Alyssum - If you don't readily think of sweet alyssum when think of fragrant flowers, you might want to try some by your door or window. The dainty flowers can be planted as ground cover, potted in a plant and given as a gift, etc. Wherever you find these fragrant flowers, you will smell them first, with a ever so soft scent as they catch your attention. Recommended when adding fragrant flowers to your garden.

You probably have your own favorite fragrant flowers, but you can use our top ten list of fragrant flowers as inspiration. Plant fragrant flowers simply for the pure delight of perfume in your garden. Send fragrant flowers of beauty and fragrance to please the eye and touch the heart.

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