Home gardeners continue to seek ways to expand their plantings beyond common varieties. Tropical herbs and spices offer one ...

Just choose a few containers or locate some spots in the garden where you can include these bold-leafed beauties. Before you know it, you'll be sipping your favorite beverage in your very own tropical ...

At 83 acres, the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is one of the largest of its kind in the country. With a surplus of ...

If you traveled to Dominica in hopes of catching a glimpse of rare plants or wildlife, look no further than the Papillote Tropical Gardens. Spread across 14 acres, the gardens are located just before ...

After the Polar Vortex visit, it left many of us thinking about life in the tropics or at the bare minimum longing for summer, gardening and splashing in the pool. In reality, it will not be long ...

It’s a jungle at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden, a lush haven on the rainy, rugged side of Hawaii’s Big Island. Yet it’s a jungle that’s been partly tamed, planted and laced with walkways that let ...

ASHEVILLE – In Mark Zimmerman's man-made Eden, the air smells like sugar, the animals are made of fiberglass and the grass is always green, except on the ninth hole, where it is teal blue. "There's ...

Some of the most visually appealing ones are also delicious. Here’s how to choose — and grow — the best ones. By Margaret Roach Homegrown tastes of the tropics slumber in Marianne Willburn’s freezer — ...

The lights illuminate the sky, the trees, the guests, even a glass Chihuly sculpture. Snow shimmers and falls amid brightly lit palm trees. Shy fairies reveal themselves in a tropical rain forest. And ...

Have you ever returned from a tropical destination wishing you could hang onto that beachy vibe when your vacation is but a distant memory? Do magazines and television shows in sultry settings ...