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

After a long, difficult day, what's better than retreating into your own scented secret garden? When strategically set around the patio, plants with aromatherapeutic properties create a natural haven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I’d like to feature scent in my garden, but I also prefer to grow native species where I can. Is it possible to overlap these two categories? A: Sure! While noninvasive nonnative species would ...

Gardening is a fantastic way to stimulate the senses, and one of the most powerful ways it does this is through fragrant plants. Many plants are scented to attract the pollinators essential for their ...

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 ...

Fragrance is just as crucial as visual appeal when creating a captivating garden. Tony Hall, Head of Arboretum and Temperate Collections at Kew Gardens, emphasises that scented plants offer more than ...

I have always liked Van Morrison and one of my favorite songs is one he sings called "Moondance." Even if you're not dancing what better place to appreciate the moonlight than in the night garden. Now ...

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 ...