After writing about plants with purple flowers, two gardeners shared their purple horticultural passions.

If you still have any warm-season annuals in your garden beds, they’re probably on their last legs and not looking so great.

Lush tropical gardens can evoke feelings of relaxation, of escaping to an island paradise every time you walk into the garden. Unfortunately, central Ohio missed the boat on year-round tropical plants ...

This popular tropical plant can be grown outdoors, but it needs to become a houseplant in winter. Here's how to move it ...

If you love tropical plants but don’t live near the tropics, we’ve got 10 tropicals that can grow outside the warm, balmy locale. The following plants can thrive indoors or outdoors, given the right ...

The tropical hibiscus bloom period lasts for several months, which ensures your yard will be beautiful all summer long. (Ellis Lucia) Tropical plants play an important role in New Orleans summer ...

For fast growth and outstanding garden impact, you can't beat a vigorous climbing vine that you can quickly grow up a trellis or over an unsightly fence. Of course, you'll also want one that has ...

Based on the climate map in A. B. Graf's "Tropica," no portion of the continental United States is considered tropical, although extreme South Florida and it's Keys come close. Florida is classified ...

More than 40 years ago, my parents went to Hawaii and returned with what looked like three coffee beans, each sporting a little orange mustache. They were bird of paradise seeds, brought back to ...