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 ...

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 ...

Sow these herbs in May for a summer of bold flavors, fragrant harvests, and effortless outdoor cooking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fragrant plants are one of the important sensory elements that makes a garden special. Just as a border can feel lacking without ...

Neutral to slightly alkaline (6.0-8.0) This grasslike groundcover has it all: evergreen foliage, fragrant blooms, drought ...

Of all the flowers in the garden, lavender is probably one of the most popular and easily recognized for its beautiful purple spiked blossoms and aromatic fragrance. Native to the dry slopes that ...

Skip a trip to the grocery store and, instead, grow your produce at home. From herbs to veggies, here are twelve plants that ...

There are many things to consider when you're planning a garden. What types of flowers would you like feature? You'll have to consider a host of colors and textures and foliage and decide on just the ...

Every year when May arrives, I am sure that the time has come to remove my lemon verbena. Started from a sprig growing in a four-inch pot about 20 years ago, it is now more than six feet tall and wide ...

A normally invisible plant is the fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans). When it is in flower, however, everyone will look for it. This shrub has leathery, dark-green ovate leaves with smooth edges. The ...

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 ...