Fragrant Plants

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Shop fragrant plants that fill your yard with scent from late winter to fall: sweet-smelling shrubs, flowering trees and perennials, grown on our Tennessee farm since 1959 and shipped straight to your door. Plant them near patios, paths and windows, where you’ll enjoy them most. Buy Fragrant Plants Online From a Tennessee Nursery The right fragrant plants turn a yard into a place you want to linger. A sweet bay magnolia by the patio on a June evening, violets by the front step in early spring, or witch hazel scenting a cold November walk: fragrance adds a layer of enjoyment no other plant quality can. TN Nursery has grown plants in McMinnville, Tennessee, for three generations, so every fragrant plant you order comes from a family farm rather than a warehouse. How to Choose Fragrant Plants What’s your growing zone? Use the zone filter above. Our fragrant plants cover zones 3 through 10. Where will you smell it? Plant fragrant flowers within a few steps of where you sit, walk or open a window. Scent carries best in sheltered spots out of the wind. When do you want scent? Choose plants that bloom in different seasons, so something smells good from late winter through fall. Fragrant Flowering Shrubs Carolina Allspice , also called sweetshrub, is one of the best fragrant shrubs for the eastern US. Its maroon spring flowers smell like a mix of strawberry, pineapple and banana, and the scent is strongest on warm afternoons. Crush a leaf or a bit of bark, and you’ll smell spicy, clove-like notes too. Witch Hazel blooms when almost nothing else does, in late fall, with spidery yellow flowers and a light, sweet, spicy scent. Fragrant Trees Sweet Bay Magnolia has creamy white flowers with a sweet, lemony fragrance from late spring into summer. It stays smaller than other magnolias and tolerates wet soil. Southern Magnolia produces huge white flowers with a rich, classic magnolia scent in early summer, in zones 7 to 9. In early spring, American Plum covers itself in clusters o