Tropical plants are filling our homes and workspaces, adding beauty, relieving stress and boosting creativity, productivity and focus. Keep these plants healthy and looking their best by providing for ...

It’s easy to have a touch of the tropics on your patio or deck, and planting pollinator gardens including those for butterflies has become very popular. KSTP’s Home and Garden expert Larry Pfarr has ...

Celebrities lead busy lives but pride themselves on aesthetics. It makes sense then that they're drawn to this visually ...

Beautiful and exotic, hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) flowers are the perfect choice for bringing tropical flair into your home. With their vibrant colors and lush blooms, they’ve become one of the ...

Make room in your summer garden for the dazzling tropical beauty of elephant ears. Fact checked by Khara Scheppmann Elephant ears can reach an impressive mature height of more than 6 feet tall in one ...

You can expect these tropical plants to bloom or give you color each year from April through October with minimal care. HIBISCUS The most well-known tropical flowering plants, hibiscus come in a wide ...

There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants for permaculture “food forests” like avocado and sapote and tender ...

Sooner or later, it is said, everything old is new again. But 65 million years old? Bromeliads, which shared the Earth in the Cretaceous Era with dinosaurs, and which have been a staple of indoor ...

Question: How do I plant and care for tropical bird of paradise? These are those very pretty flowering plants with banana-like leaves you see in San Diego or other places where it does not freeze.

If you care for plants, you know it's an act of love. There's plenty of trial and error, learning and unlearning, even self-forgiveness when a plant dies that you're fond of. And I've found while ...