Hints and tips:
...Made from the highly perfumed petals of Rosa rugosa, this blush-coloured condiment marries the tang of apple-cider vinegar and a subtle tea-rose scent....
...A towering and flowering delphinium in March? A lovely sight. If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...In late June and early July you will have trumpets of white flower, flushed purple on their exteriors, which give off the most heavenly scent, especially as the sun cools at evening....
...The pungent scent in White Dazzler is the scent of its leaves when broken and rubbed. They remind me of gin....
...There are plenty of flowering shrubs, bulbs and winter-flowering perennials and annuals to choose from, says Hall....
...Wisley’s trees are about 20ft high, each showing single flowers with a slight flush of pink and a faint scent of almonds....
...She well calls it “the queen of umbels”, though it dies after flowering a few years into its lifespan....
...I had good results from hardy pleiones and I had flowers on two cypripediums, the Ladies’ Slipper orchids, but I never had a flowering cattleya to match those whose flowers were worn by grand French ladies...
...Up to 5ft high, the Duchess of Cornwall is an excellent choice to position beside earlier-flowering shrubs....
...As for heliotropes, one of the heavenly scents of summer, stores offer Marine or similar larger-leaved varieties, but they do not match the scent of the shrubby varieties, Chatsworth being especially good...
...I adore the Bonnefont Cloister with its herb garden filled with aroma, scent and colour, often featuring heritage varieties of medicinal plants dating back to medieval times....
...Others may credit each of them with the scent of bubblegum. One difference is that the Asiatic species grows less tall, at most about 15ft....
...If it becomes too wide it can be pruned after flowering. The flower heads are excellent in vases indoors, but their strong scent is rather peppery....
...Marriott confirms that it is “particularly free flowering and healthy” with a scent that some compare to aniseed....
...Tall pots of fish stock and congee bubble away on the stove, while the scent of pigeon meat wafts from a stack of steamers....
...For £16, a plant I liked the look of is the Duchess of Cornwall, a bush rose growing up to 3ft high and bearing cup-shaped orange-pink flowers with a good scent....
...By now, three weeks later, there must be hundreds of gibbosa fritillaries flowering in this dry plain....
...Known as the land of mimosa, it’s an area that’s been populated by acacia farms for generations, and it instantly conjures their distinctively heady scent....
...Diluted at about 10:1 it makes excellent foliar feed for flowering plants rather than salads....
...About 2ft tall, it has the most heavenly scent. Plant five bulbs in each big pot to stand on either side of a house door: in late June the evening air cools and the lilies’ exquisite scent rises....
...He chose the rare white Chinese lilac, Syringa pekinensis China Snow and became lyrical about its abundance of flower and fine scent. I felt a wave of wistful delight....
...Distressed debt specialist Gramercy Funds scents an “opportunity for experienced credit investors” in the cash-strapped Chinese real estate sector and has been loading up on property company bonds....
...I love the perfume you have when nothing else is flowering.” When the azaleas and jasmine are in bloom, “it’s like walking through a big perfume bath”....
...These are four-petalled and have a strong almond scent. They are followed by fluffy silver seed heads reminiscent of those of the plant’s close relative, old man’s beard (Clematis vitalba)....
...It is flowering with yellow flowers. It is not Lonicera caprifolium, the Italian honeysuckle whose flowers combine red and white....
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