Local nurseries are filled with tropical plants for gardeners to place on their patio each summer, but many of these plants are difficult to keep alive inside the house during the wintertime.

Also known as frangipani, this tropical plant's flowers will fill your home or garden with fragrance. Plumeria, also known as ...

The peaceful backyard buzzes and hums. A plump, ruby-red-chested hummingbird darts in and out of the dense foliage, and a walnut-size, iridescent green Japanese beetle lazily ambles among the many ...

Every year, thousands of visitors to the Northwest Flower & Garden Show come home with cuttings of plumeria, (frangipani), only to see their dreams of sweet Hawaiian fragrance dashed when the cuttings ...

If you have plumeria in your landscape, you are enjoying the transformation of the ugly duckling plant to the lovely swan. My husband asked a few months ago why I was keeping “that ugly stick plant” ...

When an ornamental horticulture professor at Cuyamaca College asked him to draft a design for a plant nursery, Carl Herzog looked at the bare, decomposed granite hillside beside his Lakeside house and ...