The RHS Companion Guide To Scented Plants By Stephen Lacey: Book Review

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">After <a href="http://moderncountrystyle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/how-to-turn-any-bunch-of-flowers-into.html" target="_blank">this post</a> on how adding home-grown eucalyptus is a cheap and effective way to give pizazz to any bunch of flowers, it got me thinking once again about scented plants in the garden. I am absolutely crazy about scented flowers. If you are too then <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0711235740/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0711235740&linkCode=as2&tag=modecounstyl-21&linkId=2JX7VP2JZR6KQCTI">The RHS Companion to Scented Plants</a>,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the only major reference work on scent and scented flowers that is endorsed by the RHS,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> authored by Stephen Lacey is one book you won't want to miss.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="RHS Companion to Scented Plants lr" height="640" src="https://hurtlingtowards60.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/rhs-companion-to-scented-plants-lr.jpg?w=640&h=846" width="483" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Companion To Scented Plants (published by Frances Lincoln), not only contains an extensive list of plants (more on that below), but also gives over the first three chapters (Scent And The Gardener, The Nature Of Scent, and Planning Your Garden) to fantastic ideas about garden designs that are beautiful AND highly scented....a Modern Country Garden paradise!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rest of the book acts as a catalogue of scented plants and flowers. However, and let me very clear, this is <i>not </i>a dry, dull reference book. Instead, Stephen Lacey's text will have the olfactory  equivalent to making your mouth water (making your nose run??!!)...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="RHS-Scented-Plants-sample-2" height="391" src="http://reckless-gardener.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RHS-Scented-Plants-sample-2.jpg" width="400" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This book reveals aroma as the intensely personal but often-missing ingredient of beautiful gardens. If you spent the long summer evenings in your garden enjoying al fresco suppers.....but <i>didn't </i>spend time with your head buried in deliciously fragrant flowers then, <i>please</i>, buy <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0711235740/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0711235740&linkCode=as2&tag=modecounstyl-21&linkId=2JX7VP2JZR6KQCTI">The RHS Companion to Scented Plants</a> and set yourself that delightfully achievable and utterly pleasurable goal for next year!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEishdyCk6ObcKba86AmGFXP8ZzlWNLaNUxY1YUf5fZgrAuub43PCTanFzHQIWZaHPxWWEyGo27f0dmV6LlJVoivf2FfJI6bW-2vZuJ37vNTL_rqXDcTQ0gCMjkXzyiu81CunQfWH1y3_ZU/s1600/911BDF1E66C2C8003D62774447FCC1C0.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEqUyRhCg66gPfNQHh81rGOfvP_VywWXZqmmtMCjkwk_8h3tp2giJzjabWtNCTfsCfeGInxUcrjS5f4hN-9ni-WpudY16p2jrQvLG77TNFiylmGDVHlNlhiZJunob4YyRG5n7m46U703I/s1600/2052BBEDE343AF4A73F6A61C3820B007.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>

The RHS Companion Guide To Scented Plants By Stephen Lacey: Book Review

After this post  on how adding home-grown eucalyptus is a cheap and effective way to give pizazz to any bunch of flowers, it got me thinking...

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