The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance

Winner of the American Horticultural Society book award and the Garden Communicators International Gold Medal, The Scentual Garden is a complete illustrated study of fragrance in the garden by “the guru of natural gardening” (New York Times), Ken Druse.

In this major work packed with knowledge about the scents found in our floral world, Ken Druse organizes garden plants, shrubs, and trees, both familiar and unusual, into 12 categories, giving gardeners an enormously expanded palette of aromas to explore and enjoy, and also provides examples of garden designs that offer harmonious aromatic delights.

Ellen Hoverkamp contributes her ingenious botanical images of flowers and plants discussed in the text. These are accompanied by Druse’s award-winning garden photographs to create a book that is as beautiful to look at as it is informative and evocative to read.