When selecting plants for an outdoor space, it’s easy to let your eyes do the picking. While pots of bold, colorful flowers ...

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 ...

Whether you're biking through the Chippewa Valley and catch their fragrance from a distance or strolling through your ...

If you want to attract more hummingbirds to your yard, the key is adding plenty of colorful, low-maintenance flowering plants ...

For a garden with instant charm, fragrance, and color, plant our favorite scented climbing flowers, like honeysuckle, ...

The 7 best fragrant hedge plants to keep your yard fresh this summer and beyond . Features. By Madeleine Streets published 11 June 2025 ... Lilac (Image credit: Shutterstock) ...

Laura Irish-Hanson, a horticulture educator at the University of Minnesota Extension, notes that she grows a barrier of lilacs spread about 6 feet apart, and trimmed to be 4 feet wide.

If you have a thriving container garden and want to add one of these beauties to your collection, here are a few of the best lilac varieties suitable for growing in pots. Common lilac (Syringa ...

Lilacs have been filling my Instagram feed lately—lilac bushes in full flower, bountiful bouquets of cut lilac stems in the arms of smiling gardeners, and lilac blooms piled high in baskets or ...

The plants were given to him by another Idyllwild resident, concert pianist and lilac collector Reva Ballreich, former president of the International Llilac Society, who grew or hybridized more ...