Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Planting fast-growing shrubs is another way to bring color and fragrance to the garden. One large hardy shrub with fragrant ...

We love fragrant flowers, with their amazing range of scents reminiscent of chocolate, cotton candy, and beyond. They have the power to trigger a memory—a pink peony can remind you of a favorite ...

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As a professional gardener, when my clients want to plant flowers near a patio, they often go for easy-care annuals that can be grown in containers. But if your space allows it, you should also ...

For as long as I can remember, I have been drawn to plants with fragrant flowers and foliage. The added bonus with growing many of these is the butterflies and hummingbirds that they will attract to ...

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 ...

Planting some highly-fragrant nemesia in pots on my patio recently made me start thinking about the importance of scent to a garden. You can have wonderful aromas on your patio, or further up the ...

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 ...

Transplanted Northerners often miss sweet-scented lilacs, which don't bloom well here because of our short winters and long summers. While the bond between fragrance and memory is strong, perhaps they ...

Take a deep, sweet lungful of jasmine fragrance–and admire its courage. Its swaggering machismo, even. For a strongly scented flower takes terrible risks, says scent biologist Robert Raguso of the ...

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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 ...