Sorry, Valkyrie, you're right, we got sidetracked. I would suggest nicotiana
for scent, or you could grow heliotrope. Both should tolerate shade just
fine, although they like some heat, which Seattle summers don't always
provide. You could also grow four o-clocks, although they will only bloom in
the late afternoon through the night - very wonderful scent. Some petunias
are somewhat shade-toleraant, and the deep purple varieties in particular
have a strong clove scent. Some varieties of lilies will tolerate dappled
shade. For brighter colors, you could plant a lot of impatiens, and just mix
a few of these more scented plants among them. Hope this helps. If you want
a nice evergreen, tea olive (osmanthus) is shade tolerant. It has tiny
flowers, but the scent will fill your whole block. Certainly camellias,
rhododendrons, and azaleas will bloom in dappled shade conditions, if you
like them.
"Valkyrie" wrote in message
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Just in case we don't get away with it or chicken out have you given
any thought to installing grow lights? Or is too much on the
outside of the balcony where the lights wouldn't reach?

About the last thing I'd do is put up grow lights, I can't think of much
of
anything uglier and probably pretty darned expensive. I'm not sure what
kind you'd need to get enough light at plants 5 to 7 feet below without
going into some sort of very expensive commercial type installation.
Thanks
for the suggestion all the same though.

I honestly thought that with the amount of cumulative knowledge in this
group I'd get some suggestions on what I could possibly plant, in what has
now become a shaded area, that has flowers AND scent to make my little
balcony that much nicer.

ohhhhhhhh well :-(

Val