Description: "If you cannot pass a flower without burying your face in it and you're frequently caught with pollen smeared on your nose (a hazard particularly associated with lilies), you belong to the exclusive club of gardeners for whom scent is deeply important. I'm convinced pollen on the nose is a beauty mark of sorts."

"-- Suzy Bales

The aromatherapy craze has brought America's attention to what noted garden writer Suzy Bales has always known: scent has an immense influence on our moods and well-being. While other gardening books explain how to plant for color, "A Garden of Fragrance will help you mix fragrances to create utterly enchanting gardens that smell as good as they look.

A Garden of Fragrance explores the aromatic character of all your favorite plants:

Seductresses arc heavily perfumed flowers such as roses, gardenias, hyacinths, lilacs, and lilies. Their scent comes out to greet you before you even see them.

Come-Closers, including snowdrops, pinks, and violets, are more subtle flowers that share their fragrance only when held close.

Moonlighters dispense their perfume from early dusk into the night, allowing for warm, heady evenings in the garden. Moonflowers, honeysuckle, and petunias are the garden's night owls.

Shaggy Dogs, which include many herbs, hide aromas in their leaves. Line a path with these, and you'll be rewarded when you brush against them as you walk by.

The eccentric Rogues include the love 'em or hate 'em varieties, the pungent nose-twisters, the dual personalities, and the stinkers. Their beauty is best glimpsed from a distance.

"A Garden of Fragrance provides detailed guidance on how to design, plant, and maintain a scent-filled garden,

including charts on essential oils, plants' aromatic properties, and winning scent combinations. Whether you want a sweetly romantic garden, an exotic, powerfully scented garden, or a garden that perfumes the evening air, here you'll find everything you need to create the garden of your dreams.

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