There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

To celebrate the New Year, I’ll mention a few flowering plants that have been cultivated for a century or more but will be new to most local gardeners. First up is Indian shot canna (C. indica) from ...

Florida's sunshine isn't the only thing that never takes a break here. Your garden can burst with color all year long if you pick the right flowers. I'm talking about tough, beautiful blooms that ...

There's an endangered species of flower that's grown only on South Florida shrubs for around a century. The rare four-petal pawpaw flower in Martin County and Palm Beach County and has never grown in ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Andre A. Naranjo is Botanical Curator at Florida ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The beautiful colors of a Panama rose. (the-palm-beach-post) While I’ll always miss the daffodils, tulips and peonies that are ...

Ground covers are the problem solvers of the plant world. They can do everything from preventing erosion on slopes to filling ...

Modern scrub mints, delicate flowering plants that grow mostly in Florida, likely result from ancient hybridization, according to a recent study I published with colleagues. Scrub mints are a clade – ...