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I have a large number of hosta plantaginea and always love to cut a few flower stems for indoors; mine are very fragrant!
Take three or four stems, put them in a vase, and the room is filled with the scent--similar to lilacs or hyacinths!
Oooh. Sounds like I have a lot to look forward to as the clumps expand.
I too selected many plants for fragrance in my yard, and learned that not all are fragrant the way I expected. For example, my mock orange is not fragrant up close, but from about ten feet away it is heavenly. My fragrant snowball is marvelous, but only when I am near -- and many of the snowballs are not fragrant at all.
I LOVE the Winter Daphne, and it is best about four - six feet from a walkway, because it can be too strong.
Not all lilacs are fragrant. My pale lilacs in front are very fragrant, but the darker lilac that moved in to the yard from under the fence (though prettier) cannot be smelled at any distance.
My William Shakespeare rose from David Austin is a great one for fragrance, and there is a yellow rose at my back fence that I've lost the name and it is divine.
The lilies are overpowering, but left outside they are nice. I love my Dianthus in the spring -- and so do the Western Tiger Swallowtail. The honeysuckle have a mild fragrance from a distance, but next to the plant I cannot detect it at all.
Honeysuckle is one of my favorite fragrant flowers but it's not like you have to do anything to grow them, lol. When I lived in the country my yard was surrounded with honeysuckle and when that was in bloom and the fireflies came out it was heavenly.
2. Tuberose. I planted three of these, but they're all foliage, and no flowers to speak of and it is already August. I planted them pretty early because of the unseasonably warm weather.
My neighbor gave me some tuberose last spring. They didn't start to bloom until September, and then it was only one stalk. This year they came back (a bit bigger, too), and bloomed like crazy. I had eight bloom stalks by late June. They smelled SO good. I now have three more, with the first one getting ready to open. A word of advice: Keep some staking material handy. My bloom stalks started falling over when they got heavy with flowers.
I have them planted in full sun on the southern side of the house. However, my neighbor has not gotten hers to bloom once. She has hers planted in a less sunny area, so she will move hers next spring to see what happens.
I'd suggest leaving yours where it is, and see what it does next year. Here's a picture I took on July 2:
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