The bright red calyxes of the roselle plant can be dried and used to make tea. In Sri Lanka the young leaves are added to curry as a nutritious vegetable. It has other common names such as Jamaican ...

It has taken me years of living in Houston to understand how to garden here. Best to do raised beds, have good irrigation and plant natives has been my takeaway. So, when I was at the annual Herb ...

Hibiscus sabdariffa commonly called Roselle or Florida cranberry is a tropical hibiscus in Arkansas, that only blooms in the fall. We saw these plants in Texas on our trip that were just loaded with ...

— Senior citizens and school children in Roselle found common ground Thursday as they started building the borough’s first community garden. In a 20-by-50-feet lot at the Anthony Amalfe Community ...

The author is the Editor, special features for The Economic Times. A few days back, while researching this column I wanted to pick up some roselle leaves for our photographer to shoot. I stopped off ...

If all goes well, Alicia Bacon’s plot at the Ocean View Farms community garden in Mar Vista will be a garden of scents this summer, an olfactory orchestra of plumeria, the flowering vine known as ...

Brown patches appeared suddenly on my roselle plant and, two days after I took the photograph, its bud looks to be withering. What is wrong with the plant? It was growing well until the brown patches ...

The plant is botanically known as Zingiber ottensii. It is a member of the true ginger family, Zingiberaceae. It produces attractive inflorescences that arise from the base of the plant. It flowers ...

Florida’s early settlers often strived to bring what was familiar to this strange new land — customs, traditions and the plants that provided their food and medicine sources. A number of plants from ...