(* indicates significant fragrance)

• old fashioned common lilacs (syringa)*

• hydrangeas (especially the peegee type)

• mock orange (philadelphus - get the "Minnesota Snowflake" variety if you can!)*

• virgin bower clematis (clematis virginiana)

• sweet autumn clematis (clematis paniculata)*

• serviceberry (amelanchier canadensis)

• Russian olive (elaeagnus augustifolia)*

• cherry elaeagnus (elaeagnus multiflora)*

• white forsythia (abeliophyllum distichum)*

• Hall's Honeysuckle (variety of lonicera japonica)*

• forsythia (may need lots of pruning...)

• rose-of-Sharon (hibiscus syriacus)

• winterberry (ilex verticillata)

• star magnolia (magnolia tomentosa or stellata)*

• shrubby cinquefoil (potentilla fruticosa)

• mountain rhododendron (rhododendron catawbiense)

• azaleas:

  • swamp azalea (rhododendron viscosum)*

  • pinkshell azalea (r. vaseyi)

  • roseshell azalea (r. roseum or r. prinophyllum)*

• shrub and old garden roses (many varieties - see Selecting Roses)*

• staghorn sumac (rhus typhina)

• smokebush, smoke tree (cotinus coggygria - purple and green leafed varieties)

• flowering raspberry (rubus odoratus)*

(* indicates significant fragrance)

• perennial sweet pea (lathyrus latifolius)

• hyacinths*

• dahlias

• peonies (paeonia)*

• columbine (aquilegia)

• tiger lilies (the parent of the modern day lily)

• bergamot (monarda)*

• smooth penstemon (penstemon digitalis)

• black-eyed Susans (rudbeckia hirta)

• purple, white coneflower (echinacea purpurea, e. pallida)

• lavender hyssop (agastache foeniculum)*

• butterfly weed (asclepias tuberosa)

• native grasses (see also Ornamental Grass):

  • bluestem, prairie dropseed, side oats grama

• coreopsis (coreopsis tripteris)

• New England aster (aster novae angliae)

• ferns

• blue false indigo (baptisia)

• sea holly (eryngium yuccifolium)

• Joe Pye weed (eupatorium purpureum)

• queen of the prairie (filipendula rubra)

• meadowsweet (filipendula ulmaria)

• compassplant (silphium laciniatum)

• cup plant (silphium perfoliatum)

• sedums

(* indicates significant fragrance) - most of these self-seed freely.  See also "Self Planting Gardens" for more easy garden annuals.

• nasturtiums (tropacolum)

• sweet peas (lathyrus odoratus)

• angels trumpets, trumpet flower (datura metel)*

• bachelors' buttons, cornflower (centaurea cyanus

• love in a mist (nigella)

• baby blue eyes (nemophila)

• nicotiana *

• four-o'clock (mirabilis jalapa)

• toadflax (linaria)

• sweet alyssum (lobularia maritima)*

• annual lupine (lupinus)

• tree mallow (lavatera)

• candytuft (iberis umbellata)

• morning glory (ipomoea)

• California poppy (eschscholzia californica)

• pinks (dianthus chinensis)*

• Sweet William (dianthus barbatus)*

• forget-me-not (cynoglossum amabile)

• spider flower (cleome hasslerana)

• rose moss, wax pink (portulaca grandiflora)