For many gardeners, winter can be a bit of a dreary season, when the days are short and it's often too cold to build up much enthusiasm to get out into the yard. At this time of the year, it's far ...

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 ...

Fill your garden with feathered friends by planting these seven species, all of which provide natural food sources for birds.

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.

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 ...

Nighttime in the garden brings activity from moths, bats, and other evening pollinators. Learn more about nine night-blooming plants that feed evening pollinators.

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 ...

Learn how to plant, prune and care for lavender in autumn. Expert tips for Australian gardeners to keep lavender healthy, ...

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 ...

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 ...