You don't have to live in a tropical location to grow tropical plants in your garden. Many large, colorful plants thrive in the summer heat. And they are a great way to add pizzazz to your yard.

Looking for an easy-to-grow tropical plant? This perennial grows quickly and offers beautiful blooms even when contained to a ...

With the first occurrence of decidedly cold weather, we know that even colder weather is on its way. Now is the time to consider the tropical plants in your landscape, and make plans about how you are ...

Some plants, like avocado trees, grow stronger and more cold hardy as they mature. They also become more difficult to cover.

As the warm weather of late spring arrives and we look around our landscapes, the mildness of last winter becomes apparent. Tropical plants on the south shore were barely touched by winter cold, and ...

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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 ...

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, ...

The heat and humidity of a typical Harrisburg summer is enough to make it seem like home to tropical plants. Many tropicals do surprisingly well not only in our summer pots but in our summer garden ...

Many gardeners say that vines are the best plants yet, to give their homes an air of tropical living by using them to cover ...

I love our native plants and concentrate on their use in the landscape. However, using tropical plants for annual or perennial color is useful and appropriate as well. The national flower of Barbados ...