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For many gardeners, winter means a break from endless garden jobs and a swift retreat indoors to sit by a fire and ponder catalogs and planting plans. But
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Learn how to grow sweet alyssum, a garden favorite with dainty scented flowers. Get care tips for keeping your alyssum blooming in containers, hanging baskets and flower beds.
Winter-Blooming Fragrance: This Mahonia variety boasts fragrant yellow flowers that bloom in the winter months, offering a unique burst of color and scent when most other plants are dormant. Pollinator-Friendly: Indigo Flair™ Mahonia serves as a valuable winter nectar source, attracting various pollinators such as bees, thereby enriching your garden's ecosystem. Versatile Planting Options: Whether planted as a foundational piece or as part of a shrub border, Indigo Flair™ Mahonia adapts well to a variety of garden schemes, including containers for patio or balcony gardens.
Jasmine, citrus plants, gardenia, stephanotis, orange jessamine, begonia, certain orchids, passionflower, hoya, angel's trumpet, and plumeria all offer sweet-smelling flowers. Scented geraniums, sweet bay, eucalyptus, and Cuban oregano also have fragrant leaves.
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These hardworking shrubs offer spectacular blooms or colorful berries—and sometimes even both.
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Things aren't always cold and dreary in the winter. Here's how to grow and care for Winter Daphne to achieve beautiful blooms.
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Best plants for that shady spot in your garden. Did you know that there are many shade loving plants that you could plant for colour and scent in a shady...
This guide profiles the prettiest varieties of salvia plants to grow in gardens. See different salvia plants, plus their care details and other helpful info.
The large, fragrant blooms of Purpurea Virgin Coneflower have a green cone and full, bright-white petals surrounding the center. This variety of Coneflowers are a staple for the summer garden as they are praised for their long-blooms throughout summer to early fall. These daisy-like flowers are excellent for beds and borders, paired with other perennials. Grow in full sun Height: up to 20-25" inches tall Attracts bees and butterflies and hummingbirds Blooms from Mid-Summer to Early Fall Learn more about How to Grow Echinacea.
Scented geraniums are not your grandmother's flowering annuals. Instead, they are plants whose fragrant foliage is the star of the show.
Get smart tips for growing lemon verbena, an herb whose aromatic lemon-flavored leaves can be used in everything from salads to teas.
Adorned with lavender in full bloom on either side, this ravishing gravel path features superb Portugal Laurel trees (Prunus lusitanica) clipped into neat mushroom shapes. Two evergreen companions that offer multi-season interest, beauty, and fragrance and enable gardeners from cool winter areas to enjoy the true Mediterranean look in their garden.
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Learn essential tips for growing colorful dianthus, from planting to pruning the spicy-scented plants.
Les rameaux nus de cette viorne de Bodnant portent des bouquets de fleurs au parfum suave qui s’épanouissent de novembre à mars. La floraison de cette variété est d'un rose vif en boutons, puis rose pâle, les bouquets de petites fleurs tubulaires formant un délicat camaïeu rose au coeur de l'hiver. Cet arbuste porte aussi un beau feuillage bronze au printemps, verdissant en été avant le flamboiement automnal, en rouge et en pourpre. Culture facile au soleil ou à mi-ombre, en sol ordinaire, profond.
You can enjoy winter colour and fragrance in your garden with this ever-popular, easy to grow shrub, Sarcococca. The flowers of Sarcococca confusa might be inconspicuous, and hide beneath the leathery foliage, but you won't miss their powerful, honey-like fragrance. The flowers are followed by black berries, which stay on the plant for a long time.Christmas Box is a versatile, evergreen shrub that needs little maintenance and can tolerate many different garden situations, especially difficult areas such as dry shade. A useful plant for shady borders or growing in large containers near to the home, where the fragrance can be enjoyed. Height: 2m (6.6'). Spread: 1m (39").Plant height and spread is seasonal therefore we list by pot size rather than a defined plant size. The height and spread of the plant delivered will vary depending on the season, meaning arrival images are an indication only.
Carolina jasmine is the ideal Florida snowbird vine for its winter and spring color and well-behaved growth habit. Read all about it!
Gatsby Moon® oakleaf hydrangea is one of the best hydrangeas for cut flowers. Learn how to care for this low-maintenance shrub with bold white flowers and four seasons of interest. Learn the ideal conditions for planting, growing and caring for this hydrangea bush in zones 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Learn if
