Almost every yard in the South has at least one gardenia. Planted by generations of gardeners for their exotically fragrant white blossoms, these tough evergreen shrubs are salt tolerant, drought ...

Almost every yard in the south has at least one gardenia. Planted by generations of gardeners for their exotically fragrant white blossoms, these tough evergreen shrubs are salt tolerant, drought ...

Silly of me, wasn’t it, to hope that the winter would have any impact on the whiteflies that attack my citrus, gardenias and other plants. In my yard, they’re back, earlier and more annoying than ever ...

Gardenias are as synonymous with the Southern garden as azaleas, hydrangeas, and magnolias. Like a true “steel magnolia,” the eye-catching, intoxicating beauty (deep, evergreen leaves, snow-white ...

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 ...

Q. My gardenia plant bloomed beautifully all summer but now is oozing a sticky white substance from the base of the stems. Can you explain this? –Joy Gleason, Chicago A. Gardenias can be attacked by ...