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carpeted with the things and the air filled with the faint scent of their flowers. That, combined with low rising sunbeams and the lettuce-coloured young leaves, is one of the most spectacular sights you could ever wish to witness.I have been unable

and is planted by the washing line. The open flowers have a beautiful jam coloured splodge in their centres. The other, Philadelphus 'Manteau d'Hermine', is only about a metre or so tall, with less open - but still scented - flowers.Others not to be sneezed

is the Latin and they have the most divine scent. The secret is to grow the long-stemmed Spencer varieties and to keep on picking them: pretty much every day. If you stop and let them start seeding then they will flower much less vigorously.But, I don't want

snail' but I just cannot learn to 'love a forsythia'.Please dig them out and plant something else. If you must have a yellow shrub flowering now, then try Chimonanthus praecox; it bears pale, lemon meringue-yellow flowers and a scent that reminds one

to live with a big empty space until June. That is not a mistake I will be making again.My third mistake is due to soft-heartedness. One part of the garden has been colonised by Hesperis matronalis 'Alba', the white flowered, scented sweet rocket, which