Gardenias are native to China and Japan but are named after Alexander Garden, a botanist who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1700s.

Fill your garden with more than white gardenias. Discover 16 companion plants suitable for gardenias to design a colorful, flourishing garden.

Native to sub-tropical China, the dry air of Southern California makes gardenias feel woefully homesick. Yet, when it comes to gardenias, it may be just as much a matter of nature (genetics) as it ...

Gardenias are one of those plants we consider one of our Southern heritage plants. Although they are native to the Far East (like crape myrtles, azaleas, camellias and many other Southern heritage ...

A native of Moultrie, Ga., she graduated from Queens University of Charlotte, formerly Queens College. She did graduate work through the University of Georgia system.

Gardenias have an army of devotees. They are reliable summer-flowering perennials, and in the summer, the air hangs heavy with their intoxicating scent. If you are the steward of a gardenia plant ...

Not just any gardenia, mind you, but a species native to South Africa that is as drought-tolerant as the toughest California native once it is established in the earth.