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 ...

Even if you have a courtyard or patio garden, scent can fill the air.

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 ...

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 ...

Fragrant jasmine plants add a certain kind of magic to a balcony garden. The white flowers and the fragrance of jasmine plants are enough to convert the smallest balcony garden into a peaceful haven.

Trying to find the best companion plants for gardenias? There are several options available to add in a boost of color that blends gracefully with creamy white blooms, but color isn't the only factor ...

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 ...

LONG BEFORE I became a gardener, I picked up on the scents of my Pacific Northwest childhood. From October through March, the sweet funk of decaying leaves from bigleaf maples permeated my Queen Anne ...

SCENT IS PERSONAL. While we can share the view of a pretty sunset or the sound of a neighbor’s wind chimes, our sense of smell is intimate, residing solely within our physical self. Fragrance might be ...

If you choose plants just for the way they look, you’re missing out. It’s time to take a fragrance inventory. By Margaret Roach In his latest book, Ken Druse candidly admits to a particular botanical ...

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 ...