Being out in the garden is a feast for the senses, particularly when you're surrounded by fragrant plants. There's color, texture, the sound of breeze blowing through the trees, and, of course, the ...

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 ...

Some evergreen container plants offer more than year-round foliage, adding fragrance, seasonal interest, and flexibility to ...

A living wall of fragrant flowers is perfect for summer entertaining, impressing your guests and shielding them from any nosy neighbors. These privacy screens can be trees, shrubs, or vines—so long as ...

The garden hedge is a stalwart of outdoor design schemes, allowing gardeners to create barriers and private spaces with entirely natural means. Common plant choices include dense evergreens and ...

Some people simply collect beautiful plants, others garden with a more specific purpose in mind. Creating a scented garden, or fragrance garden, is the goal of many gardeners who aim to create a ...

When Mina and Thomas Edison first planned the tropical gardens at their winter estate, they expected a gradual transformation with the addition of palms, fruit trees and fragrant ornamentals. With ...

If someone gave you a spindly shrub named wintersweet to plant now, you might have second thoughts about going to the effort. It is twiggy, spindly and too big. But on mild days in midwinter it ...

If you enjoy aromatherapy, you may want to consider adding some fragrant plants to your porch or in your landscape. They come in different flower colors, intensity of fragrance and blooming seasons.

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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 ...