Seattle Garden Club Fragrance Garden
The Seattle Garden Club Fragrance Garden greets visitors with tantalizing smells and colorful flowers at the entry to the Center for Urban Horticulture. Robert Chittock's design transformed the former Entry Shade Garden to the Fragrance Garden in 2007.
This is a garden for the senses. Come sit on one of the garden's five benches and feel the afternoon light on your back. Watch songbirds splash in the basalt birdbath. Close your eyes and listen to the Soest Garden fountain cascade into its basin. Breathe deep and take in the garden's rich, diverse aromas.
Did you know?
Winter flowering plants, such as Sarcococcca and Edgeworthia, tend to be small-flowering.
The low temperatures and low relative humidity of temperate climates (like
Seattle) make it a physically punishing time to be a flower. You'll find
that the visual cues on a small flower aren't so strong as on large-flowered
plants like hibiscus. Plants use fragrance as a tool to overcome small flower
size.
Fragrance Garden seasonal highlights
Winter
- Sarcococca species
- Azara microphylla
- Camellia sasanqua cultivars
- Viburnum species and cultivars
- Daphne bholua
- Daphne odora 'Marginata'
- Abeliophyllum distichum
- Edgeworthia chrysantha
- Hamamelis cultivars
Spring
- Rhododendron species and cultivars
- Viburnum species and cultivars
- Narcissus
- Hyacinthus
Summer
- Daphne 'Summer Ice'
- Gardenia cultivars
- Hosta plantaginea
- Lilium species and cultivars
- Clethra
- Itea virginica
- Trachelospermum asiaticum
Fall
- Actaea racemosa
- Osmanthus fragrans
- Camellia sasanqua
- Itea virginica
Last modified:
Friday, 18-Feb-2011 14:15:59 PST