URBANA — Summer may be the season for vacations, but if you can’t get away create your own backyard paradise with a tropical plant garden. Tropical plants can be planted in the ground or in containers ...

Most plants benefit from companion planting - where each species complements the other. This can be even more important in drier, arid zones where water is more scarce. Palm trees are often grown in ...

On a sunny — albeit a tad humid — Barbados morning, with white sand skirting gently over the teal-hued shoreline mere steps outside my room at charming boutique resort The House, I headed to a ...

"You did it beautifully!" Homeowner shares stunning before-and-after photos after turning backyard into 'tropical forest': ...

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Summertime brings to mind the tropics, and there’s nothing like looking at some gorgeous tropical plants that you can add to your backyard. One is bougainvillea. For those of you that aren’t familiar ...

LIHUE, KAUAI (ISLAND NEWS) -- A major environmental nonprofit in Kauai celebrates a big anniversary this year. The National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG) turns 60 this summer. NTBG is a nonprofit ...

A year after closing, the Hawaii Tropical Bioreserve and Garden has reopened to visitors. “It’s going really well so far, and I think spring break plays into that,” Graham said. “We’ve had a lot of ...

Randy Lane’s Fairdale Drive residence in Fairfield fits in with all of the other homes in the neighborhood. But a tour of his home’s backyard looks more like a tropical island than Midwestern suburbia ...

Columbus and other early voyagers to the Americas filled their travel journals with breathless descriptions of the tropical fruits they’d never seen before: avocados, papayas, pineapples, soursop, ...