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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woman smelling red flowers in her garden - Rainstar/Getty Images Although roses remain favorites for suffusing your summer garden ...

Hydrangeas are great. However, if you're looking for a beautiful alternative to attract hummingbirds to your garden, then ...

Each year my color-design-guru son, James, orders plants for use at his clients’ homes, from those that look like historic cottages to palatial garden estates, those on the waterfront to those ...

Spring is finally here, which means it's time to plant your annuals. Here are our favorites for full sun.

As I transition to more natives in my dry garden, some of the most appealing plants are the ones that flower for long periods and are fragrant. Fragrance can come from leaves or flowers, but there’s a ...

Purdue Landscape Report: Spring is finally here! Everywhere you look, one can find some spring color around. Some of the first plants to peek out of the ground are spring-flowering bulbs like crocus, ...

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 ...

Every spring when I teach a landscape course through Rowan/Gloucester County Community college, I am motivated to really think about and read about many different plants. This year I am teaching Theme ...