Nowhere can you recover from a stressful day at work as wonderfully as on the balcony or in your own garden. Evening and night-blooming plants give you another treasure that can support this effect, because they conjure up a fairytale atmosphere with their wonderful scent.
Scents are the feelings of flowers (Heinrich Heine)
Fragrant potted plants for balconies and terraces
With their delicate bouquet, potted plants are a beautiful eye-catcher that can be used to divide areas and create zones full of relaxing intimacy.
- Angel Trumpet: Because of its magnificent drooping trumpet flowers with their jasmine-like scent, this very popular potted plant is a visual highlight that stimulates all the senses.
- Queen of the Night: For many, this legendary cactus is the epitome of night bloomers. In the summer months it feels extremely comfortable outdoors and opens its flowers, which are up to 30 centimeters large and smell pleasantly of vanilla and chocolate, for a single night.
- Moonflower: The shape of this perennial's bright white flowers, which open at nightfall, resembles a full moon. Its delicate aroma is reminiscent of gardenia and jasmine.
- Oleander: The vanilla-like scent of the popular oleander is particularly intense at night.
- Ornamental tobacco: The ornamental tobacco makes its grand appearance in the evening and night hours, because only then do the buds bloom and exude their fine, sweet scent.
Night-blooming perennials
The flowers of these plants are usually pollinated by moths, which can be observed here in fascinating diversity.
- Scented Evening Primrose: These night scents unfold at dusk and fade the following morning. The aroma of the different varieties can be very different - floral, exotic or slightly peppery.
- Gemshorn: This annual perennial, which can also be grown in a container, exudes a wonderful vanilla, cinnamon and clove aroma.
- Hammerbush: With sufficient water and fertilizer, the pretty tree produces intensely fragrant, brightly colored flowers throughout the summer.
- Levkoje: The writers of the 19th century described the scent of violets in Levkoje as more persistent and enchanting than that of roses.
- Night Violet: The white flowers of this old cottage garden plant enchant with their clove-like aroma.
- Moon violet: In addition to the flowers that smell pleasantly of vanilla, the moon violet impresses with its attractive seed heads.
- Nodding Catchfly: As soon as the sun sets, the delicate flowers of this perennial open, exuding a heavy clove aroma.
- Soapwort: This white, pink or red-flowering evening fragrance spreads a sweet, floral note that attracts numerous insects.
- Star balm (night phlox): The charming marzipan note that this moonshine flower, which is not related to phlox, exudes makes it unique and unmistakable.
- Star gladiolus: The white, star-shaped flowers of this onion flower with red spots on the inside captivate with their penetrating, heavy, sweet aroma.
Aromatic herbs
Popular culinary herbs such as mint, marjoram, chives or lemon balm have an intense scent even in the evening hours. So that they develop their full fragrance, you can pluck a few leaves and run them over them with your fingers. This causes the scent glands to open and the scent molecules to be released.
Night-scented trees
- Honeysuckle: This pretty climbing plant forms a dense veil of foliage interspersed with pleasantly scented flowers and creates a fairytale privacy screen.
- Privet: The white privet flowers that appear from June exude a sweet, floral aroma that gently flows around the patio.
Tip
So that the wonderful scent of the night-blooming plants doesn't disappear, you can set up a protected scent corner with a place to sit in the evening hours. This is a wonderful place to chill out while you sniff the delicate bouquets of the moonshine plants and watch moths snack on the nectar of the flowers.
