There's something about the color yellow that is instantly uplifting. Yellow is one of the four primary colors. For many people, it is associated with joy, optimism, warmth, and inspiration. Yellow ...

Tropical hibiscus likes hot weather and provides vibrant flowers in summer, but it will not survive a winter outside in ...

Now that the heat and humidity have our attention, so do tropical blooms. The queen of them all - the saucy hibiscus - takes the summer garden to another latitude. Of the more than 200 species in the ...

Coleus can also take direct sun in cooler gardens. Coleus is just as much a favorite houseplant as it is a garden subject.

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 ...

I can't tell you how many calls I got from gardeners lamenting the damage. As bad as things looked, I told them, by midsummer our landscapes will have mostly recovered. Well, it's midsummer. What do ...

Scientists are trying to bring more beauty to the colder regions of the Texas by breeding winter-hardiness into a tropical ornamental plant, the angel's trumpet flower. Texas AgriLife Research ...