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Question: Could you tell me the names of some plants for our garden with fragrant leaves or flowers that can be dried and that will retain their fragrance? I’d like to use them to make packets for storage trunks and boxes. NO., Missouri.
Answer: Many fragrant flowers do not retain their fragrance long enough to be of value when dried. To do so they should contain an abundance of volatile oil. The tuberose, rose, the mints, heliotrope, hardy carnation, nicotiana, regal lily, exacum, sweet peas, honeysuckle, rose geranium, lemon verbena, lavender, rosemary, thyme, sweet marjoram, and flowering currant are some of the more desirable for fragrance of the flowers or foliage.
