Scented Shrubs
The following list of garden shrubs shows the range of plants that may be grown for their fragrant flowers or aromatic foliage:
Fragrant Flowers
- Abeliophyllum distichum (White forsythia)
- Buddleja alternifolia (Fountain buddleia)
- Camellia sasanqua (Camellia)
- Choisya 'Aztec Pearl' (Mexican orange blossom)
- Choisya ternata (Mexican orange blossom)
- Clethra alnifolia 'Paniculata' (Sweet Pepper Bush)
- Colletia armata 'Rosea' (Barbed wire bush)
- Cytisus battandieri (Moroccan broom)
- Daphne bholua (Daphne)
- Daphne blagayana (Daphne)
- Daphne cneorum (Garland flower)
- Daphne odora (Fragrant daphne)
- Elaeagnus (Oleaster)
- Erica lusitanica (Portuguese Heather)
- Hamamelis mollis 'Pallida' (Chinese witch hazel)
- Lonicera x purpusii 'Winter Beauty' (Winter Honeysuckle)
- Lonicera standishii (Honeysuckle)
- Luculia gratissima (Luculia fragrant cloud)
- Magnolia sieboldii (Chinese magnolia)
- Magnolia x thompsoniana (Magnolia)
- Mahonia japonica (Japanese mahonia)
- Osmanthus delavayi (Chinese holly)
- Philadelphus (Mock orange)
- Pittosporum tobira
- Rhododendron arborescens (Rhododendron)
- Rhododendron auriculatum (Rhododendron)
- Rhododendron fortunei (Fortune's rhododendron)
- Rhododendron 'Loderi King George' (Rhododendron)
- Rhododendron luteum (Pontic azalea)
- Rhododendron occidentale (Azalea)
- Rhododendron 'Polar Bear' (Rhododendron)
- Rhododendron 'Westminster' (Azalea - Occidentale Hybrid)
- Sarcococca (Christmas box)
- Viburnum
Aromatic Foliage
Hardy
- Caryopteris
- Ruta graveolens (Rue)
- Santolina (Cotton lavender)
- Skimmia x confusa (Skimmia)
- Phlomis fruticosa (Jerusalem sage)
- Pyracantha
- Rosa moyesii 'Geranium' (Moyes' rose)
Not Hardy
- Prostanthera cuneata (Alpine mint bush)