Even if you have a courtyard or patio garden, scent can fill the air.

The sweet, heavy perfume of the fragrant evening primrose wafts in the sunset on balmy summer evenings. The first night moths will soon come to pollinate the buds. The plant is just one of many that ...

Night-scented plants help create a backyard with the perfect atmosphere for evening entertaining. And night blooming and light-reflecting plants can also help to set the scene as can large plants that ...

When the weather is bad, the days are short and much of life has drained from your garden, there's one thing that can sharpen your senses and lift your spirits like nothing else: a scented plant. Over ...

Gardening is a fantastic way to stimulate the senses, and one of the most powerful ways it does this is through fragrant plants. Many plants are scented to attract the pollinators essential for their ...

Planting herbs and flowers that birds love is an easy way to attract them to your yard. This hummingbird-attracting herb ...

Fragrance has the ability to transport us to another time, another place, and — when employed in the garden — it can create magic. Many of our emotions and memories are closely linked, due to the ...

I have a longstanding weakness for fragrant flowers. The first memory of the power of fragrance in plants goes back to an amazing honeysuckle hedge in a neighbor’s yard. It was so happy and gave off ...

Q: I’d like to feature scent in my garden, but I also prefer to grow native species where I can. Is it possible to overlap these two categories? A: Sure! While noninvasive nonnative species would ...

When Mina and Thomas Edison first planned the tropical gardens at their winter estate, they expected a gradual transformation with the addition of palms, fruit trees and fragrant ornamentals. With ...

If you choose plants just for the way they look, you’re missing out. It’s time to take a fragrance inventory. By Margaret Roach In his latest book, Ken Druse candidly admits to a particular botanical ...

What do you love most about your garden? If you're like most people, your instinctual knee-jerk response probably involves the layout, design, drifts of color, curb appeal and the overall happiness it ...