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Flower help, please...

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Verla Kay:
So be careful about using rose bushes, though. Most of the roses you can get today are pretty much "scentless." The hybrids that have been created have eliminated most of the smell from them. If the bush was a very old one, with the older very thorny roses on them, you could probably have them smelling great.

JFriday:
You're right, Verla. There's something incredibly disappointing about seeing a lovely rose, bending over to sniff, and getting...nothing. I plant roses in pots on my deck every year (and manage to kill them every winter, it seems), and the major criteria I have is that they have a strong aroma. The old garden roses and species roses all, I think, have good scent. Some of the newer ones do too, especially David Austin ones.

I sound like I know what I'm talking about, but I really don't...

Cindyb:
My peonies in zone 5 bloom in late May- so would they be earlier in zone 6?

1846:
How about lavender?  It has a strong scent and blooms most of the summer.  Mine is still going strong.

Marissa Doyle:

--- Quote from: Cindyb on August 12, 2009, 08:15 PM ---My peonies in zone 5 bloom in late May- so would they be earlier in zone 6?

--- End quote ---

Depends.  I've got a dozen different types in my yard (also Zone 5)--they start blooming in late May and don't usually finish up till July 1 or so--later this year because of the cool, wet weather we had.

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