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 ...

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 ...

SPECIES: Gardenia (gar-de’ni-a) jasminoides (jas-min-oy’deez). Named for Alexander Garden, a doctor in Charleston, S.C. Native to southern China. FORM: Dense, rounded evergreen shrub Zones 7b-10. Has ...

Gardenias have an army of devotees. They are reliable summer-flowering perennials, and in the summer, the air hangs heavy with their intoxicating scent. If you are the steward of a gardenia plant, or ...

Nearly two decades ago, I planted a ‘Mystery’ gardenia. Today it is over six feet tall and currently covered with fragrant white blooms that reach up to five inches across when fully open. I have been ...

This is exactly what Coxon's Radiator Service has done with its car park gardens in North Rockhampton. Most gardenia flowers have a waxy appearance and somewhat resemble those of camellias, and the ...