A keen gardener has shared her favourite flower to plant in the garden for the best fragrance. Bex Edwards has been charting her gardening journey on TikTok and has gained nearly 30,000 followers as she gives her tips on everything from hardy winter flowers to delicious fruits you can grow yourself.
In one of her latest videos, @bex_edwards tells her followers about the most fragrant flowers for the ultimate sensory garden experience. And top of her list is the Polianthes Tuberosa, a beautiful white flower that blooms in late summer. Posting the video, she captioned it with: “The most fragrant flowers!
“Superb fragrance – it will blow you mind, it’s genuinely an amazing fragrance that gets stronger in the evening.
“Flowering in late summer, it’s the perfect addition for beauty as well as fragrance. Make sure to start them off frost free and you will be delighted later in the summer.”
She further explained in the video: “For fragrance in your garden, I can not recommend Polianthes Tuberosa highly enough.
“These flowers are probably the most fragrant flowers you can possibly grow in your garden and I absolutely adore them.
“I grow them every year and they are a firm favourite.”
Bex goes on to show people how the bulb looks when you buy them and added: “All you need to do is start them off in a frost-free location.
“So, plant them shallow with a bit just poking out the top of the soil surface, into pots and keep them on a windowsill somewhere or in a greenhouse, keep them nice and frost-free.
“A little bit of water, and then what you will start to see is lovely green shoots appearing. Tall stems rise from here and some the most magically, beautiful flowers that just open in succession.
“And the fragrance that fills your garden from these, they’re sweet, their delicious.”
Bex added that they flower quite late in the season and the smell only intensifies in the evening.
She added: “If you are lucky and you keep them frost-free you can get them to come back next year.”
Bex also confirmed in the comments Polianthes Tuberosa are not on the toxic list for animals, so should be fine to grow if you have pets.
