In the summer I really want everything around to bloom and fragrant. Therefore, for your personal plot, you should choose a flora that will fill the garden with aroma throughout the summer season. It is good if these plants are also unpretentious in care.
Lavender Garden
This perennial shrub has spike-shaped bright inflorescences. Lavender is a honey plant and has a pleasant aroma.
The plant is unpretentious - loves sunny glades and moderate watering. In too moist soil, its roots rot, and in arid times, the appearance of inflorescences becomes not so bright.
It blooms from mid-summer, and flowering continues until the end of the summer season. Many varieties of lavender tolerate moderate frosts pretty well. It is famous for its medicinal properties and is widely used in pharmaceuticals.
Phlox
These unpretentious perennial flowers with a delicate and pleasant aroma have a huge palette of colors and do not require special painstaking care. Flowering lasts from June to late autumn.
To smell the most vividly, you need to plant this plant in a sunny place. Any loose soil fertilized with organic matter is suitable. Successful growth requires moderate watering.
Night violet matthiola
The plant blooms with small lilac flowers, which at first glance are inconspicuous, but looking closely, you can see in them a special charm inherent in the night violet.
An amazing and very rich aroma of the plant is revealed at dusk and fragrant all night. For planting, sunny places and partial shade, loose and fertile soil are preferred. Mattiola loves moisture, so regular irrigation is necessary.
Peonies
Perennial unpretentious flower that can grow in the same place for decades. There are many varieties and colors of peony, but the smell is similar and unique.
Their heady aroma is not like the others, it is felt from afar. The only minus of the plant is a short flowering period (May, June). Peonies are unpretentious - they like sunny places and periodic watering.
Sweet pea
This weaving plant of the legume family has many varieties and a wide palette of colors. The most fragrant peas are early peas.
Its small flowers are very similar to miniature orchids. The fragrance is gentle and unobtrusive, but very tangible and pleasant.
Flowering begins in July and continues until frost. They prefer sunny and calm places, and the soil should be loose and well fertilized. Likes plentiful regular irrigation.
Mirabilis
"Night Beauty" or mirabilis won the great love of gardeners. The point is not only in its attractiveness and beauty of flowers, but also in its stunning aroma.
This annual plant forms dense rather high bushes and this quality is used to create hedges and plant borders. The color of the flowers depends on the variety, and sometimes one bush can bloom with flowers in completely different shades.
Mirabilis blooms from June to frost. For good flowering, loose soil and frequent watering are necessary.
Alissum
This perennial creeping plant actively grows and forms a colorful carpet. Because of its ability to quickly fill free areas, it is often used to replace primroses and early onion crops, as well as to frame country paths and garden discounts.
It is very simple to take care of: it is enough to plant in loose soil, periodically weed and irrigate. Alyssum is often confused with lobelia. They are really relatives, but alissum flowers have only yellow and beige hues. And lobelia has a more diverse palette - from white to purple.
The flowering of alissum lasts from the end of May until the advent of frost. All this time, the plant gives the garden the aroma of meadows and honey.
Garden rose
No wonder this plant is called the “queen of the garden” - a huge number of varieties, smells and colors simply amaze the imagination. Roses can transform even the most modest territory.
Depending on the variety, they have delicate honey, fruit, fresh and herbaceous aromas. It is believed that roses of dark shades have a brighter and more saturated smell than roses of light tones.
These flowers are unpretentious in cultivation and care. It is enough to plant them in loose well-drained soil, previously fertilized with organic matter.
With a large amount of summer rain, roses do not need frequent watering. Their developed root system can provide themselves with moisture from the deep layers of the earth. And in a swampy area or in the immediate vicinity of water bodies, a plant may die at all.
The flowering of roses continues until mid-November. Almost all varieties tolerate severe frosts well. For the winter period they are pruned and covered with spruce branches or foil.
