If you’ve ever walked past a flowering gardenia plant, you know just how powerfully fragrant they are. The scent casts a wide net, stretching out to anyone who walks in relative proximity and is also ...

When you list plants that belong in a classic Southern garden, the gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) has to be at the top of the list. Beautiful evergreen leaves, snow-white blossoms, intoxicating ...

When you list plants that belong in a classic Southern garden, the gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides) has to be in the top five. Beautiful evergreen leaves, snow-white blossoms, intoxicating fragrance, ...

Good King Solomon…or was it, King Wenceslas?…(doesn’t really matter, I’m making up this story anyway) supposedly “offered a gardenia each morning to each woman in his harem.” That’s according to the ...