Visakha

I’m a vegetable gardener. Or at least, I always have been until very recently. I love growing my own food and I’ve dedicated a lot of time and energy into learning the craft of small-scale food farming.

However, a recent move and certain circumstances have kept me from my veggie-growing ways this year. And now, in this new house, I’m feeling drawn to flowers for the first time ever. Flowers! Beautiful bright blooms, a rainbow explosion across my yard. All the shapes and colors and sizes; vines and stalks and shrubs and on and on. But mostly? Mostly I want the sweet, calming, joy-inducing fragrance that comes from fresh blooming flowers.

And I’ve been doing my research. Some people like it floral and perfume-y, others like it heady and tropical. Me? I guess because I’m used to growing food – I like my flowers to smell downright edible. So here it is, my top six picks for the most delectably-scented flowers you can find. These are the flowers that smell like candy!