On Halloween, moms and dads who were chaperoning little trick-or-treaters on my North End street in Virginia Beach got a sweet treat all their own. “What do I smell?” asked one mom. “I feel like I’m ...

This fragrant Osmanthus Syrup is a golden, floral sweetener made from dried osmanthus blossoms. With its delicate aroma and subtle honey-apricot flavor, it's a versatile syrup that instantly elevates ...

Fragrant tea: Oolong tea bags with dried osmanthus flowers [Photo by Pauline D. Loh/Shanghai Star] Legend has it that the semi-deity Wu Gang toils endlessly on the moon cutting down an osmanthus tree ...

People say that the most romantic season in Hangzhou is autumn, when Hangzhou’s city flower, the sweet osmanthus, is in full blossom. One cannot help but be immersed in the captivating fragrance, ...

Xianning has a long history of osmanthus planting. It is recorded in historical literature that in the Warring States Period more than 2,300 years ago, when poem Qu Yuan passed Xianning, he wrote the ...

The meanings represented by kanji characters are not always the same everywhere. Take the kanji that, when it is written in Japan, refers to a midsize deciduous tree called “katsura,” for example. The ...

In Japan, and many other parts of East Asia, the wonderful aroma of osmanthus, otherwise known as the fragrant tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans) and known in Japanese as 金木製 kinmokusei, is a harbinger of ...

When we think “gardening expert,” a few local green thumbs might come to mind, but Dallas Arboretum’s Vice President of Gardens Dave Forehand certainly makes his way to the forefront. Each week, we’ll ...

Question: I've been looking for plant material that will make a good hedge, but not one that looks unkempt very quickly, or become problematic because it spreads too fast. It should be evergreen since ...

Sweet Osmanthus flowers are in full bloom at Sweet Osmanthus Rain, one of the "10 must-see scenes" of the West Lake scenic spot in Manjuelong village in Hangzhou, east China's Zhangjiang Province, Oct ...