Ideas for launching a garden column have been swirling around in my head. Should the introduction be about the Arkansas River valley’s ideal climate, gardening by our ancestors, tips on killing weeds, ...

A question for Dan Gill: Our sweet olive has been in the ground about four years and is about 6 feet tall. We've heard these trees can grow to be about 12 to 14 feet tall. I'd like to prune off some ...

In fall some folks are outside less than in summer. Their relaxing hours after dinner in the garden are cut by darkness and it is dark early in the morning too. One way to still enjoy plants is to ...

Most gardeners can't narrow their list of favorite plants to one. However, we can have a list of a dozen favorites, although even that number is hard to limit. High on my list is the sweet olive ...

A stephanotis bloom is shown. Large fragrant plants like citrus trees, sweet olives, stephanotis and jasmine will make a fragrant delight as a floor plant. (Photo | Lorraine Kiefer) In fall, many ...

I don’t see them regularly, but I often smell them. The flowers of the sweet olive (Osmanthus fragrans), which appear in fall, early spring, and even during mild winters, are small and creamy white, ...

HOUMA -- For Colette Boudreaux the smell of sweet olive trees is more than just a scent. The smell transports her to days gone by when eight tall and graceful trees decorated her Dularge home. As the ...

Jaquetta White reported this morning about David Mark Wyant's plans to transform the old Audubon Building on Canal Street into The Saint Hotel. The one-and-a-half-year, $39 million renovation should ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - It’s a story WAFB has visited for years now: the lack of care that goes into Sweet Olive Cemetery. It’s the oldest African American cemetery in Baton Rouge, but it’s also ...