Fragrant Plants Plants For Sale In Kansas City

A great rose for hedging, landscapes, and as part of a mixed perennial border. A very disease resistant and free-blooming antique rose producing lightly fragrant 2" cherry red blooms for 10 months of the year here in zone 8B.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany Sambac Jasmine is also known as Flore-Pleno and Rose Jasmine. Deep green glossy foliage on a twining vine-like or scrambling shrub to 8' or can easily be pruned to keep it smaller and fuller.

It prefers mildly acidic, moderately fertile, average moist soils and cool sunlight to filtered shade. This large flowered and long popular cultivar has been variously called Brunfelsia pauciflora 'Magnificent', B.

Their large hanging trumpet shaped flowers release their heady fragrance most readily in the evenings and at night to help the moths and other creatures that might pollinate them locate them in the dark.

Good drainage and moderate amounts of sunlight are best but it is fairly shade tolerant as well. Somewhat drought resistant once well-established and is even suitable for coastal plantings as long as it doesn't receive direct salt spray.

Flowers of the Sweet Olive are used in Asian dishes to impart their fragrance into food and teas. Sweet Olive is a 2009 Georgia Gold Medal Plant selection. For year round fragrance in zone 8 plant a Sweet Olive along with Sweet Almond Verbena, Gardenias,...

Fertilize after flowering with a balanced fertilizer for acid-loving plants. Recommended for a fragrance garden, you'll enjoy the intoxicating scent from late spring through summer.

Native to much of the south central and south eastern US as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as extreme southern Illinois. Grow it as a small perennial herbaceous vine that can be cut back to 1-2' in later winter after the buds have begun...

Illicium parviflorum is found in Florida and Georgia naturally. The foliage has a Sassafras like aroma when crushed. Happiest in moist well-drained soils in a lightly shaded or morning sun site.

Pull it out in the spring and start watering it and it will grow and bloom again. Checkout our new Plumeria Growing Guide for more detailed growing information. Needs a fast draining soil.

Full sun is preferred for the best growth and flowering but as long as they receive 6-8 hours a day they seem to do just fine and midday or afternoon shade is often desirable in hot summer climates.

The fragrance of this easy to grow twining native vine can stop you in your tracks on a night time garden stroll! Makes a low maintenance cover for wire fences or provide it with an arbor or trellis to scramble up.

If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit. May be at there best when grown in hanging baskets where the flat arching stems and hanging flowers are held at eye and nose level.

They do their best flowering when grown in full or mostly sun locations. Apparently there is a small amount of nitrates that fall with the rain which signals the plants to flower. Use rainlilies at the front of the border, as an accent plant, in rock...

For more on how to espalier Banana Magnolias and other plants from the Mississippi State Extension Service click here . Where not cold hardy overwinter indoors under high light and preferably with direct sunlight.

Four O'Clocks are long-lived durable perennials that begin flowering in late spring and will continue flowering until the first frost. The flowers of Marbles Yellow & Red Four O'Clock open in the afternoon or evening, or earlier on cloudy days.

Centennial Star Magnolia may be the easiest cultivar to train into a tree form. Once well-established in the landscape they will require practically zero maintenance except maybe to refresh their mulch.

Easy to grow and share. Makes a wonderful hanging basket, allow it to spill from mixed containers, or train it as a vine. More light produces richer foliage color. A close cousin of the Rose Cactus, the Lemon Vine is a true cactus that still has true...

The rich dark green glossy foliage provides the perfect foil for the flowers and its evergreen too! A popular, and durable vine with a twining habit that is able to climb our southern pine species without an assistance.

They do reseed readily and will happily colonize an area and spread if given the opportunity and so should be given their own area of the garden. Welch, Landscape Horticulturist with the Texas AgriLife Extension.

Duchesse de Brabant has an upright to vase shaped habit and makes an excellent specimen or use it in mass or as a hedge to wonderful effect. Another Earthkind rose selected by the Texas AgriLife Extension service for it's reliability, disease resistance,...

Rangoon Creepers are naturally deciduous in winter, provide them with a well lit, warm growing area during dormancy and do not allow them to remain wet for long periods which could lead to root rot.

An easily grown cactus-like plant with 1.5" wide, flat, scalloped branches to 8'. If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit. Great in hanging baskets. Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the...

Gardenias make good container plants and can be enjoyed indoors where not winter hardy. Tubifera , are obviously moth pollinated with their flattened corollas that open at the ends of 3-5" long arching narrow tubes.

The Blue Moon Rose produces magnificent displays of spectacular blooms year after year. Exotic buds and huge fragrant lavender blue blooms cover this rare rose all summer long. Such an incredible silvery lavender-blue rose, it seems unreal! You'll love...

A perfect plant to add to a Moon Moth garden setting. Good drainage and proper watering techniques are key to its survival. The dainty twining vines rarely present a problem although this vigorous little ground covering vine could potentially smother...

It is commonly seen in washes and along riverbanks at elevations below 1500 m in its range. Although the natural growth is a very irregular shape, it can be readily pruned into a conventional tree shape.