Is your yard starved for sun? Turn your backyard into a thriving oasis with these tried-and-true shade garden plants.

Minnesota is about as far away from tropical as you can get but our hot temperatures recently have been perfect for tropical plants. Home and Garden expert Larry Pfarr has tips for tropical plants and ...

Treat yourself to some color year-round with this beautiful vine that can be flexible in the garden. It doesn't require much ...

A stunning shade garden filled with impatiens and ferns - You Touch Pix of EuToch/Shutterstock If you have some shady nooks in your garden, they don't need to look dull and uninteresting. You can fill ...

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 ...

Tropical plants play an important role in the New Orleans summer garden. These plants, native to tropical areas of the world, are not bothered in the least by our hot days, muggy nights and frequent ...

If you don't have enough light, grow lights can be a great alternative. Keep these no more than 2 feet away from the foliage, ...

Most shade tolerant plants prefer one of the following conditions: four or fewer hours of full sun (especially morning); dappled sun all day; or high, shifting shade (as you find under tall pine trees ...

The heat and humidity of a typical Harrisburg August is enough to make it seem as if we're living in the tropics. If that's the case, we may as well grow with the flow. Plenty of tropical plants do ...

Gardening in North Texas means we deal with the challenges of hot weather and limited water resources. But we still love to have a bit of the tropics in our gardens, and that's where canna lily plants ...

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 ...

The world has more than 1,500 ginger species, most found in the tropics and subtropics. The pineapple ginger is native to Indonesia’s Spice Islands and parts of New Guinea and Australia. Fairchild ...