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.

Petunias, geraniums, impatiens and other annual flowers are popular reliable fillers for containers and landscape beds, but there are other options to provide summer color and interest to the 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 ...

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 ...

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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Just south of downtown Miami lies The Kampong, a tropical paradise founded by one of America's most prolific inventors, now ...

Tropical plants here in New England grow mainly as indoor plants or in the summer garden. Last week I attended the Tropical Plant Industry Exhibition in Fort Lauderdale, a trade show for the industry.

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 ...