Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Full disclosure: I wasn't always a fan of California native plants because, honestly, I didn't know anything about them. I was too ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fill your garden with sweet smells all spring and summer long. Andyd/Getty Images Being out in the garden is a feast for the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Planting fast-growing shrubs is another way to bring color and fragrance to the garden. One large hardy ...

While we think of fragrant plants as always on, the truth is some are more potent at certain times of day. Find out which ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." What's more, fragrant flowering vines bring built-in charm to garden spaces unlike any other plant. They ...

The broiling sun, dry spells, and moisture-sucking hot breezes of summer aren’t exactly the ideal trifecta for planting new plants, but that doesn’t mean summer is a total planting no-go. Summer ...

SEATTLE — There are a number of shrubs that bloom with wonderfully fragrant flowers in winter and people aren't the only ones who love them. No one knows for sure if hummingbirds have a sense of smell ...

Hydrangeas are stunning and popular, but they can be a little tricky to care for.

Slowly, but as surely as the sun will rise, our Southern California landscape is changing. Recent rains notwithstanding, water is becoming too precious a commodity to use on irrigating huge swaths of ...

In a recent column, I mentioned that sweet almond shrubs I’ve cultivated in Central Florida were scentless, even though the species is widely deemed intensely fragrant. It’s possible that ancestry ...

When a shrub is called Koreanspice viburnum, you might guess that its flowers are fragrant. And you'd be right. The dense clusters of pinkish buds open to white flowers in spring, releasing a ...

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 ...