Native fruit trees are low-maintenance, have a higher chance of survival, and offer shelter and food for local wildlife.

There are a number of romantic, fragrant pastel annuals you can choose for long-lasting blooms from spring into summer, including sweet alyssum, stock, verbena, petunias, heliotrope, and more.

Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, has a strong, sweet scent when it flowers in mid-spring. As a ground cover, it does well in part-shade and tolerates various conditions, once established ...

Summersweet (Clethra alnifolia) blooms in the late summer, says Irish-Hanson, but it's wise to plant it during the spring. "The fragrance is sweet with a hint of spice," she adds. "Its white ...

2. Alyssum One of the most fragrant spring flowers is the alyssum, making it a magnet for bees and hummingbirds. Alyssum come in a large variety of colors and are extremely popular for containers ...

From late spring through frost, vanilla-scented, pink-blushed, white flowers top their red-tinted, green foliage. These usually open during cool afternoons and close the next morning.

The fragrant blooms open from buds that have been noticeable from the previous year. The foliage drops in mid-December to reveal both the interesting bark and the large, silvery flower buds.

Spring blooms are not only beautiful, but they have a wonderful fragrance. Carrie Engle from Valley View Farms shares some of the fragrant plants recommends for this time of year.

Spring-flowering bulbs such as tulips, daffodils and especially hyacinths are sweetly scented. They should have been planted last fall but if you forgot, pots of them in flower are available at ...

For about two weeks every spring, my letter carrier, delivery drivers and just about everyone else who walks into my yard comments on the deliciously strong scent emanating from the two lilac shrubs f ...

This spring, consider planting fragrant plants and flowers along a garden walk or near an outdoor sitting area. The human nose has something like 10 million scent receptors.

The flowers are not fragrant, but the 4- to 6-inch lacecap-type clusters appear in profusion in April or May. They turn red in summer then black in fall, attracting birds.