When choosing plants for a garden, you may base your decision on a variety of factors. We sometimes decide to choose plants based on a color palette we like. This is easy to do if you want a garden of ...

Want to add some tropical flair to your garden this summer? Then look no further than lush ginger plants. Gingers hail from tropical Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas. Many are highly ornamental ...

Hardiness zones: 8b through 11. Planting months: Year-round. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Light requirements: Part shade/part sun. Soil requirements: Occasionally wet; ...

If all goes well, Alicia Bacon’s plot at the Ocean View Farms community garden in Mar Vista will be a garden of scents this summer, an olfactory orchestra of plumeria, the flowering vine known as ...

Question: Our ornamental ginger plants have grown more than 6 feet tall and have some cold damage. When is a good time to cut them back and reshape the plants? Answer: Wait no longer to give your ...

Months of hot, humid weather make summers in New Orleans a challenge for many plants (and people). But as some plants languish in the heat, a wonderful group called gingers thrive and delight us with ...

Do you dream of a tropical paradise in your backyard? If so, you might consider planting gingers that are adapted to our area to add that tropical flare. Gingers are a large group of exotic plants ...

The famous trumpeting, cupped receptacle on daffodils is called a corona, and botanists are confounded as to its function. However, the presence of the corona does assist us in explaining why daffodil ...

While following paths through the conifer forests in the North State, hikers often encounter the shiny, bright green, heart-shaped leaves of wild ginger plants. For me, these happy hearts on the ...

There’s something very satisfying about flowering a plant for the first time, particularly when you’ve been growing it for several years without success. This is exactly what’s happened to us this ...