Temperatures are starting to rise and gardeners are looking for plants that can take the heat and keep on blooming all summer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A classic favorite among plant parents, African violet (Saintpaulia) produces velvety green leaves on short leafstalks. It has ...

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 ...

Each flower only lasts a day (and occasionally two), but given plenty of sunlight and ample water and fertilizer, these plants can produce enough flower buds to give you flowers all season long.

Burl Mostul and Sean Collins will showcase unusual tropical houseplants, olive trees and hard-to-find species at Rare Plant ...

Planting the first vegetables, flowers, or shrubs of spring marks a new year of gardening, but growing plants in a greenhouse can mean that season never has to end. Whether heated or unheated, a ...

If your home is already hearing the call of the jungle, tropical plants could be just the addition it needs. You may already have string lights sprinkled throughout your interiors that wouldn’t look ...

Our summers are getting hotter for longer, pushing the limits of some flowers that really don’t appreciate day after day of ...

Some of the most visually appealing ones are also delicious. Here’s how to choose — and grow — the best ones. By Margaret Roach Homegrown tastes of the tropics slumber in Marianne Willburn’s freezer — ...

Tender perennials that perform well in Iowa include cannas, dahlias, gladiolus, tuberous begonias, caladiums and calla lilies ...

Some plants crave a long bird bill. One tropical plant can even recognize which kind of hummingbird is slurping its nectar by the shape of its bill, scientists report online March 2 in the Proceedings ...