Tropical areas offer abundance in landscape design. From giant blooms and lush green leaves all year round to all kinds of birds, butterflies and aquatic life, the possibilities are limitless. For ...

A quality tropical landscape design is based on quality trees, palms and flowers as the foundation of the landscape. The best plants for tropical landscaping are usually verdant with thick, waxy ...

Play me a ukulele and replant my pots with orchids. I've just returned from Hawaii and tropical gardens are all I can think about. So I'm going to depart from my column's usual format for a week to ...

Gardens hold a bounty of flora and fauna, and FIU Architecture students are building sustainable ways for humans to connect to them all. Through their yearlong graduate seminar and design studio, ...

THE authors of this volume are writing primarily for gardeners in the Haiwaiian Islands, though, as the climate in this part of the Pacific is fairly typical of the moderate tropics everywhere, the ...

Situated in the western region of Rio de Janeiro, the property embodies a successful project developed over more than 40 years by landscape architect and artist Roberto Burle Marx (1909-1994), a ...

Florida is home to plenty of jaw-dropping gardens, but according to HGTV, there’s one that stands out among them all: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables. The home improvement and design ...

It was 1984 when Duffy Hurwin, a former clothing designer who also did interior design and photography, met her future husband, Ron, the former owner and publisher of the Marin Express card and its ...

What has the Easter Bunny and eggs have to do with Easter? The return of Jesus after the crucifixion has little to do with bunnies and eggs. However, the concept of rebirth and resurrection was based ...

Steve Maugeri joined the CBS News Miami team in April 2024. Steve has always loved the beach and is excited to live this close to the ocean within a major city as well! The founder of the Miami ...