Gardenias

Imagine yourself on a Hawaiian beach on a sultry evening, your eyes closed, the air redolent of the heady perfume of gardenia, tuberose, white ginger, frangipani, lemon and orange blossoms, and jasmine. The ocean surf rolls in waves in the background, and when your eyelids open ever so slightly, the white shaft of the moon bounces off of the whitecaps of the water, shattering into crystals far more rich than any grouping of...

Gardenias

Imagine yourself on a Hawaiian beach on a sultry evening, your eyes closed, the air redolent of the heady perfume of gardenia, tuberose, white ginger, frangipani, lemon and orange blossoms, and jasmine. The ocean surf rolls in waves in the background, and when your eyelids open ever so slightly, the white shaft of the moon bounces off of the whitecaps of the water, shattering into crystals far more rich than any grouping of...

Deer Dinner Guests?

Are you tired of serving up a nightly buffet of your prized garden plants to your neighborhood deer? Short of completely fencing in you yard, one of the best ways to keep them away is to plant with deer-resistant plants. These are plants the deer just don’t like. Another advantage to this is that rabbits have similar taste in plants-so most deer-resistant plants are also rabbit-resistant. However, most of us...