If you love to laze in water in your backyard, fragranced plants will take your al fresco R&R to a whole new level, whether that's in a pool, hot tub or a garden bathtub. Yes, you read that right, a ...

While many of us are preoccupied with how our gardens are looking, scent is just as important in an outdoor space. For Tony Hall, Kew Gardens’ Head of Arboretum and Temperate Collections, scented ...

Fragrant evergreens bring two valuable qualities to the garden: year-round greenery and beautiful scent. From perfumed ...

When the weather is bad, the days are short and much of life has drained from your garden, there's one thing that can sharpen your senses and lift your spirits like nothing else: a scented plant. Over ...

Heirloom Pelargoniums, some with hundreds of years of horticultural history, are among 2,000 kinds of plants in an herb collection in rural New Jersey. Louise Hyde, co-founder in 1969 of Well-Sweep ...

Night-scented plants help create a backyard with the perfect atmosphere for evening entertaining. And night blooming and light-reflecting plants can also help to set the scene as can large plants that ...

Incorporating fragrance into a landscape combines the knowledge of a master gardener with the “nose” of a master perfumer. While it can be as simple as starting with a single or several carefully ...

This is one of those plants you pick up without really thinking, and suddenly it becomes an old friend you’ve had for years. Its green, slightly crinkled leaves release a gentle aroma—a cross between ...

There’s hardly anything that delights the eyes more than a well-tended garden — but what about a garden designed to delight the nose? A fragrance garden might be just the remedy for these stressful ...

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 ...