Growing your own fruit is an excellent way to diversify a home garden. Determining which species to grow based on your climate may feel limiting. However, if you are living in subtropical regions or ...

Even the subtropical perennial bloomers appropriate for full sun didn’t fare as well as we have come to expect the past few years. If you adhered to our expectation that they didn't need irrigation ...

This past week’s cold temperatures definitely got low enough to damage the tropical and subtropical plants that make up our ...

Abutilons, also known as flowering maple (Abutilon spp.), can make a stunning addition to your garden. Well-loved pollinators such as butterflies and hummingbirds adore these plants, and their ...

WE’RE A SMALL but determined group, those of us who raise tropical and subtropical plants in our gardens. We understand some of you believe we should stick to traditional Northwest plants. What’s ...

Gardeners can choose from a variety of subtropical shrubs that thrive in San Antonio, including prime picks for xeriscape landscapes. Many of these plants also attract butterflies but not deer. Five ...

Subtropical plants such as bottlebrush, loquats, figs, oleanders, and pomegranates, don’t always flower their first years after hard freezes and die-back. She should apply a standard lawn and ...

On a bitterly cold winter morning inside Kyiv’s M.M. Gryshko National Botanical Garden, scientist Liudmyla Buyun checks a ...

It's the middle of winter, but a paradise of color awaits visitors who enter the Camellia House at Planting Fields in Oyster Bay. The subtropical plants have gorgeous evergreen leaves, but the complex ...