Although roses remain favorites for suffusing your summer garden with intoxicating fragrance, there's only so much of their sassiness a gardener can tolerate. Luckily, there are a myriad of ...

For about two weeks every spring, my letter carrier, delivery drivers and just about everyone else who walks into my yard comments on the deliciously strong scent emanating from the two lilac shrubs ...

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 ...

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 ...

IF YOU ENTERTAIN in the evening, or just like to go out and enjoy your garden after dark, add a sensory treat by planting night-fragrant plants in key areas of your garden. Some of the best aromatic ...

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.