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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you recently or in ...

In a small town just north of Dallas, a little piece of paradise hides in the backyard of a Texas family’s home. With 80,000 gallons of water and an investment upwards of half a million dollars, this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dana and Timmie McGehee of Mesa consider themselves outdoor people, but not pool people. So when they planned their backyard landscape redesign, they pictured tropical lushness and resortstyle luxury ...

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is reopening after shutting down for coronavirus quarantine, with new social-distancing strategies in place — and new rules about who’s allowed in. The 83-acre garden ...

To experience a tropical getaway, complete with live music, tiki bars and beachy sand, most mid-Michigan residents would have to travel hundreds of miles to a southern destination. However, for Mark ...

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 ...

A lakeside home with a sprawling tropical oasis in the backyard has hit the market in Speers Point. It is the first time the property has been offered to the market since 2004. The owners renovated ...

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, ...