Red and green are synonymous with decorating during the holiday season — and that’s partly because nature is awash in those colors this time of year. No group of plants exemplifies this better than ...

With spider plant, croton, pothos, dracaena and the various ficus, variegated foliage seems to be very popular among house plants. Remember the wildly colorful variegations of coleus when it was a ...

Hollies are a common symbol of the Christmas season and a bright spot in the winter landscape. Many varieties have bright red berries, and the foliage is often used in wreaths and flower arrangements.

When plants exhibit one or several different colors in their foliage, gardeners refer to them as being variegated. We find them throughout the cultivated landscape, in trees, shrubs, grasses, and ...

A good garden, said a friend of mine, looks ravishing every day of the year. My response was unprintable. Nowhere looks ravishing this late. Trees are bare and there will be almost no fresh flowers ...