It's beautiful & breathtakingly fragrant but there's more to this plant than meets the nose. The perfect choice for gardeners ...

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 ...

Evergreen trees grow well in containers, as long as you get the cultivar and conditions right. One specific genus looks great ...

Companion plants are a gardener's friend, helping in several ways to protect and enhance their neighbours, and this ...

As a garden center owner for over three decades, I have seen all types of gardeners come in to shop for plants and, without exception, regardless of their level of skill, there is one common habit ...

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 ...

Winter is around the corner and the temperatures are starting to drop. You may be missing your summer flowers, but here are ...

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 ...

What if I told you there was a garden you could plant which, when mature, never needed to be watered yet did not include a single cactus or succulent species? Moreover, what if I told you that this ...

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 ...