"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Flowering trees in your yard are truly a feast for the senses. Come spring and summer, these majestic ...

If you want to attract pretty hummingbirds and butterflies to your garden, growing shrubs and trees with beautiful flowers that are also highly scented will certainly do the trick. It's even better if ...

While many pollinator gardens are focused on smaller flowering plants, fruit trees are also great for attracting birds, bees, ...

Lots of the best-smelling plants need sunlight to thrive, but there is also, fortunately, a good selection of fragrant ...

Among the most brilliant of flowering trees are those in the Fabaceae, or legume, family of plants. Imagine, for example, a tree with long golden chains of five-petaled flowers, so profuse that they ...

Fast-growing shrubs can make excellent privacy hedges, especially for the more impatient among us. This shrub produces ...

Q: What is the name of the tree in the photo, and are the flowers, or whatever they are, supposed to hang down or grow outward? — Ed. F. A: The tree in the photo is a linden. There are different ...

Of the 300 or so Ixora species, just a couple produce fragrant flowers. One is the torch tree (Ixora pavetta) from India, while the other is jungle geranium (I. odorata), a 3-to-6-foot shrub from ...

A FRAGRANT GARDEN is one of the greatest pleasures of summer. We’re already past the midpoint of the season and sliding toward the equinox, which makes the perfume of lilies and roses even more ...

Our Mystery Plant this week bears one of the most beautiful flowers of the spring, and of course, it comes from a tree. It’s a small tree, usually no more than 30-feet tall or so, and it likes to form ...