Creating Scented Garden Paths and Walkways

Creating a garden path or walkway which is filled with wonderful scents is fairly easy to do, and you’ll love the end results too! There are actually several ways to create scented walkways and garden paths, so here we’ll look at each…

1. Plant small scented flowers and herbs between your walkway stones. If you have a walkway or path in place already, or you plan to create one soon, one of the easiest things to do is add flowers and herbs which will release their scent each time someone walks the path.

Planting lavendar between your pathway stones for instance, will provide beauty as well as scent. Whenever you or someone else walks down your garden path, their feet will brush up against or crush the lavendar, and this causes it to release more of it’s sweet smell. Other plants you might want to consider for this technique include low growing herbs or flowers which have a strong smell such as lemongrass, sage, or rosemary.

2. Plant bushes or flowers along either side of your walkway. If you have plenty of scented bushes and shrubs, or flower beds with sweet smelling flowers in place already, then all you need to do here is create the walkway. This can be fun because putting the garden path in after already having blooming flowers and bushes in place, usually means you’ll have to create something of a winding and meandering path through your garden. And these are some of the most enjoyable kinds of garden paths you can have, because they allow you to slowly stroll through your plants and flowers, taking the time to enjoy them leisurely with all of your senses.

If you’re starting a brand new garden however, then you’ll of course have a great deal of freedom in choosing what plants and flowers will be along either side of the garden walkway. And this is also fun, because you’ll get to discover a whole world of scented flowers, plants, bushes and shrubs to choose from.

3. Put arbors and arches over your walkway, and grow scented climbing vines. This last idea combines the previous two to some extent, and it works quite well for putting scented garden paths into narrow spaces, while also helping to create additional shade and quiet space within the garden too.

An overhead walkway simply encorporates some type of arched structure or frame that is both high and wide enough for people to walk comfortably through. Once the structure is in place, you’ll simply plant climbing vines which produce scented flowers for as many seasons of the year as possible. As the vines mature, they’ll climb your walkway’s arched structure, and eventually encompass it completely. And when the flowers start blooming of course, even approaching near the walkway will be a wonderful experience.

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