If you’ve ever walked past a flowering gardenia plant, you know just how powerfully fragrant they are. The scent casts a wide net, stretching out to anyone who walks in relative proximity and is also ...

So why not plant a garden of white flowering shrubs as a cool escape from our hot, humid climate? The warm weather that we experienced during most of this week can be made to feel even hotter when ...

Katherine Gallagher is a writer and sustainability expert. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Chapman University and a Sustainable Tourism certificate from the GSTC. An evergreen flowering ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowering shrubs aren't just for adding beauty to your garden. They're wonderful attractors of important ...

White gardens, including the most famous example at Sissinghurst Castle in England, are dramatic in the most understated of ways. A collection of plants with green and gray foliage that produce only ...

The gap between a basic yard and a show-stopping garden isn't about money or space, but about choosing plants that actually perform. While your neighbors fuss over lawn stripes and sprinkler timers, ...