Sweetest Smelling Perennial Bulbs

A fragrant garden full of perennial bulbs can be an amazing sensory experience for gardeners and visitors alike. Here are a few of the most fragrant perennial bulbs that you can find for your flower gardens:

1) Hyacinths. Not only do these perennial bulb flowers have an amazing fragrance, their blooms are long lasting as well. Plants are usually around a foot tall, and flowers come in a wide array of colors that can suite almost any garden palette.

2) Bearded Iris. These flowers are known both for their interesting blooms and their amazing fragrance. Grown from rhizomes, they are an excellent addition to any garden setting.

3) Freesia are a favorite of many perennial bulb gardeners. They have delicate white or golden flowers with a strong, sweet citrus scent to them. Just a single flower can scent an entire house! Freesias bloom in the springtime and are quite easy to plant and propagate.

4) Paperwhite Narcissus (Narcissus tazetta) are also extremely fragrant perennial bulbs. They are often forced indoors during winter, and their strong, sweet scent can also easily fill an entire house.

By growing just a few of these, or all four, you will soon have an amazingly fragrant garden full of long live perennial bulbs!

To read more tips about how to garden with perennial bulbs and profiles of different perennial bulbs, please visit the Perennial Bulbs Home Page.