Wintersweet is a large multi-stemmed deciduous shrub known for its bursts of pendulous yellow flowers on bare branches in the wintertime. Wintersweet grows best in climates with fairly moderate ...

, known familiarly as wintersweet, ranks with lilacs and magnolias for superb flower fragrance, along with another unheralded winter bloomer, the shrubby honeysuckle, Lonicera standishii . Its scent ...

Some time ago this column featured a certain pine tree called “Pond Pine” that grows in the Southeast in places we call “pocosins.” You might remember that a pocosin is a peat-based, very shrubby ...

June, that chilly old man month of the garden, is with us once again. Cherish him well. For in his light-starved heart lie many of the garden's greatest joys and most important secrets. The soil may ...

With the weather getting colder, the wintersweet flowers are like floral fairies that energize the slightly bleak winter setting. The small yellow clustered blossoms are in full bloom, wafting the ...

On February 23, as the weather warms up, the wintersweet flowers at the China National Botanical Garden's Wofo Temple enter their best viewing period. The golden wintersweet flowers, which create a ...

A FEW days into the New Year, the outside thermometer registered 16F. The garden looked absolutely beautiful with the lawn, perennial grasses and seedheads rimed with a thick silvery crust of frost, ...