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 ...

Red flowers are often the most alluring flowers in the garden. They invite your attention more than any other flowers! Red is the color of desire and passion. On Valentine's Day, lovers give red roses ...

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 ...

Rangoon creeper is a tropical vine with star-shape blooms whose colors change from white to deep pink as they age. When temperatures are rising and rain is not falling, we all still want color in our ...

Hibiscus is in the Malvaceae family of tropical plants and is known worldwide as the poster plant for tropical islands. You can hardly see an advertisement about an island getaway that does not ...

The flowers of a tropical hibiscus shrub are showstoppers. Get expert tips for hibiscus care, both outdoors and as houseplants.

If you're looking for the best zoos and botanical gardens in the country, you don't have to go far. Florida has you covered. Now in its 30th year, the Brevard Zoo in Viera near Melbourne made the ...

Fifteen years ago, the Sun Parasol mandevilla made its debut in the country and those of us who were present knew this tropical climber was here to stay. What we didn’t know was that this series ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you recently or in ...

As the melodies of Keith Urban’s “Long Hot Summer” fill the air, it’s time to ask ourselves: are we, and more importantly, our gardens ready for the heat? Summer is upon us and as temperatures rise, ...

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