Planting herbs and flowers that birds love is an easy way to attract them to your yard. This hummingbird-attracting herb ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can you imagine a garden with nothing but fragrant plants? It’s a most reasonable proposition, really. You can easily fill a garden with upright and prostrate rosemary and a dozen types of lavender ...

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 ...

I have a longstanding weakness for fragrant flowers. The first memory of the power of fragrance in plants goes back to an amazing honeysuckle hedge in a neighbor’s yard. It was so happy and gave off ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do you love most about your garden? If you're like most people, your instinctual knee-jerk response probably involves the layout, design, drifts of color, curb appeal and the overall happiness it ...

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 ...