Fragrant Plants Plants For Sale In San Francisco

Flowers are borne almost continuously from fall to spring. Flowers of the Sweet Olive are used in Asian dishes to impart their fragrance into food and teas. In Japan the white flowered Sweet Olives or Tea Olives are known as Ginmokusei which translates...

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.

Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the next day. If pollinated the flowers can mature into deliciously edible fruit. Epiphyllums are one of the few true jungle Cacti where they are often found growing with the orchids...

For a reference using this common name applied to B. In all honesty the Datura can produce flowers that point up, sideways, or even downward and thus causing confusion for the novice gardener.

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. Rainlilies know the difference between rainwater and the water hose.

We do know the difference!! For more about Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the Caracalla Bean or Corkscrew Vine click here or the "More info from universities..." link below. The Corkscrew Vine is a vigorous climber that grows from a tuberous, somewhat...

Pikake is Hawiian for Peacock So Hawaiian Peacock Jasmine = Pikake = Sambac Jasmine. A choice selection of the ever popular Sambac Jasmine. For more on how to grow Sambac Jasmine and its cultivars click the "more info on how to grow..." link near...

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.

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. The Plumeria is an easily grown, summer flowering, heat and sun loving small tropical tree...

Sweet Almond Verbena can also be trained into a single or multi-trunked small tree but this should be done only in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about 20-25oF for extended periods as it can freeze to the ground and your work will be...

Chinese Fringe is moderately drought tolerant once well established. A 2003 UGA Gold Medal winner! Highly recommended by Dr. David Creech at Stephen F Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas where a huge planting of this wonderful tree lines Wilson street...

The Sweetbay develops into a large evergreen shrub or small tree and can easily be trained into topiary forms or shaped into a hedge. The large aromatic dark green foliage is often used in soups to for its flavor.

Train the canes or stems of your roses as horizontal as possible but with breaking them. By training them horizontally the hormones that induce flower production are spread out all along the stems, whereas on a vertical stem all of those hormones go to...

Selected field grown plants. A carnival of color and these big blossoms stay beautiful right through summer's heat. Selected from 50 choice varieties, expertly chosen for constant blooming, huge blossoms and vibrant colors.

We recommend pruning Sambac Jasmine late winter before growth and flowering begin again in spring. For more a more detailed guide on growing Sambac Jasmines see our Sambac Jasmine growing guide by clicking the "More on how to grow..." link below or click...

They grow as far south as Florida and as far north as Maine. Fully double, ever blooming roses! These famous hybrid tea roses were bred by Dr. Walter D. These are husky 2 year, field grown plants.

This scented grass is a clump former, quite pleasing, grown for its deliciously scented lemon leaves. Lemon grass is used in Thai cooking and commonly with fish, the tender stalk at the base of the plant, that is blanched by lack of sunlight is snapped...

Blooms: June-fall. Enjoy the scent of lavender in your garden! Adds color, beauty and fragrance to gardens from June until autumn! This herb contains essential oils that are used in cooking, creams and perfumes.

Hardy Amaryllis do best with plenty of sunlight and a well draining soil but are fairly tolerant otherwise. These are all hybrid varieties that will produce offsets freely and seedlings may come true or nearly so to the mother plant.

The flowers are 6-8” long and emit the well-loved nighttime fragrance. It is a free bloomer with a compact growth habit and a well-branched shape making it an excellent container plant.

Gardenia flowers are, generally speaking, the most fragrant near sunset and during the early evening hours making them obvious choices for Moon Moth gardens as well as in containers.

Spikes of fragrant peachy orange butterfly shaped flowers sit atop the exquisitely variegated white and green foliage. Tahitian Flame Ginger is a hardy rhizomatous perennial that readily multiplies.

The bark is removed and the shoots are used unsplit as rod foundations in coil basketry. * The young pliable twigs are woven into baskets. * It is pollinated primarily by large bees in the family Apidae, such as carpenter bees, bumblebees, Anthophora,...

Plan to do any general pruning immediately after flowering has finished as bud formation is produced on this spring's and early summer's growth. Skinner's Banana Magnolia makes a wonderful specimen, hedge, screen, or can easily be trained into a tree...

The profusely blooming habit and sweetly fragrant white flowers makes this rarely-found selection very appealing. Flowers are borne almost continuously from fall to spring. For year round fragrance in zone 8 plant a Sweet Olive along with Sweet Almond...

From Norman Winter, MSU Cares Horticulturist (at time of writing), see " Spice Up Landscape with Showy Gingers ". They are fairly drought resistant once well-established but often have the best foliage and flower best under average moist to moist conditions.

Easy to grow with few if any pests or diseases. Beautiful glossy dark green, fine textured foliage makes this tardily deciduous shrub attractive even before it begins to flower and adds a wonderful backdrop for the interesting flowers.