In the botanical world, flowers come in a dazzling array of pink color variations, from pastel and coral shades to deep berry and fuschia. Nowhere are such diverse pink petals more prevalent than ...

On a sunny — albeit a tad humid — Barbados morning, with white sand skirting gently over the teal-hued shoreline mere steps outside my room at charming boutique resort The House, I headed to a ...

Forget roses. Fairchild Tropical Botanical Gardens wants you to stop and smell the Titan Arum, a large phallic-shaped plant that blooms on rare occasions, and, when it does, emits a scent that has ...

I can't tell you how many calls I got from gardeners lamenting the damage. As bad as things looked, I told them, by midsummer our landscapes will have mostly recovered. Well, it's midsummer. What do ...

A garden does not need to have coconut trees or exotic fruits to feel tropical. Sometimes, all you need is the right plant with large, bright, textured petals to shift the mood. And Lavatera (Malva ...

The first time I traveled to the Caribbean I was stunned at all of the beauty. It wasn't just the crystal clear water but that it seemed hibiscuses were blooming everywhere. Now when I go to a garden ...

There are all kinds of odd common names given to flowers, but certainly one of the most curious is shrimp plant. Exactly why a flower would be named after a crustacean becomes more evident with a peek ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This weekend at Denver Botanic Gardens, you can see — and smell — something fascinatingly rare: the blooming of a corpse flower named Lil Stinker. The ...

The brilliant color of the hibiscus is associated with hot climates, but we in Northeast Ohio can enjoy a relative of the tropical hibiscus, called hardy hibiscus. These flowers give huge, colorful ...

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