The Pride of Barbados is one of the most beautiful tropical plants for the home landscape. As the name suggests, it is the national tree of Barbados the island paradise in the Caribbean’s Lesser ...

They can be 20 or 30 feet up in the air, but it’s easy to spot the showy palm fans sprouting from the top of these tropical trees. Those and new fronds sprouting from the tops of sago palms as well as ...

The Pride of Barbados is an exotic-sounding name for a plant, and it lives up to its name! Besides the vibrant colors of the flowers and the lacey leaves, the wonderful thing about this plant is that ...

Florida celebrates Arbor Day this month, and January is good for planting trees on the Treasure Coast. Arbor month has a good ring to it, and planting a tree has been the subject of this column ...

Gold Star esperanza is recognized as one of the outstanding plants for blooms in full sun during the Texas summer. In most neighborhoods, the deer do not eat the blooms or foliage, and it is free of ...

Just before the February freeze, I announced the arrival of the purple martins and recommended that everyone put up their martin house. My houses are up, but I have not seen a martin or even heard a ...

For the last two months, I have been admiring the flower show provided by my yellow pride of Barbados (Caesalpinia pulcherrima flava). The Latin name of this plant commemorates Andrea Caesalpino, a ...