The sweet, heavy perfume of the fragrant evening primrose wafts in the sunset on balmy summer evenings. The first night moths will soon come to pollinate the buds. The plant is just one of many that ...
While there are many thousands of different plants to choose from, incorporating some of the best fragrant shrubs to your yard can be transformational, adding a sensory dimension wherever they are ...
Discover witchhazel, a unique plant that blooms in winter, filling your garden with fragrance and color when you need it most. Here's how to grow it.
To help you create a beautiful space of your own, we put a single question to professional horticulturalists: if you could ...
Fragrance has the ability to transport us to another time, another place, and — when employed in the garden — it can create magic. Many of our emotions and memories are closely linked, due to the ...
Full disclosure: I wasn’t always a fan of California native plants because, honestly, I didn’t know anything about them. I was too busy being googly-eyed over show-stopper ornamentals like roses. My ...
Choose one or two of these lovely-smelling annual and perennial white flowers to adorn your patio this summer, recommended by our expert gardener.
In a recent column, I mentioned that sweet almond shrubs I’ve cultivated in Central Florida were scentless, even though the species is widely deemed intensely fragrant. It’s possible that ancestry ...
Learn how to plant, prune and care for lavender in autumn. Expert tips for Australian gardeners to keep lavender healthy, ...
Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...
Nighttime in the garden brings activity from moths, bats, and other evening pollinators. Learn more about nine night-blooming plants that feed evening pollinators.