Snowdrop flowers are easy to grow and perfect for cold climates. Learn how and when to plant them to get nicely blooming ...

Hyacinths are easy to grow in a garden and they're also one of the easiest flowers to force into bloom indoors in winter.

Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...

Magnolia, especially the southern grandiflora species (7-9), is another highly aromatic shrub or tree that puts forth large, ...

For about two weeks every spring, my letter carrier, delivery drivers and just about everyone else who walks into my yard ...

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 f ...

For about two weeks every spring, my letter carrier, delivery drivers and just about everyone else who walks into my yard ...

Not many flowers have that power. Some never did. Others no longer do, thanks to breeding that has developed bigger, prettier, hardier and disease-resistant plants at the expense of scent.

Perhaps best of all, self-seeded plants cost you nothing. Embracing self-sown plants works best in a meadow-like or naturalistic garden like Norris’s or an English cottage garden, where self-seeding ...

Simply "snap off spent flowers by hand, or clip the flower stems once all buds are done," she says. Doing so will focus energy into producing new buds, rather than the spent flowers. Zones: 3 to 9 ...