Here is some fun, funky, unusual and alternative plants for your Florida landscape. Tacca chantrieri (Black Bat Flower): The black bat is a very unusual plant that grows in shade to filtered light.

Many in the South Florida landscaping industry say it is not uncommon for unscrupulous yard guys to go “shopping” for garden supplies straight from people’s yards and local nurseries.

Whether you’re new to South Florida or new to gardening, here’s a guide to how to go native this fall and enjoy the rewards you’ll receive as wildlife and fabulous colors work their natural ...

So, maybe you will want to plant a southern redcedar among a group of other trees that are already in your yard or, create a new tree island by planting four other trees with it.

Clerodendrum are beautiful, flowering plants that can be found blooming and thriving all over our South Florida landscape. With more than 300 species of vines and shrubs in the genus, they are as ...

The Florida pineland crabgrass, pinelands sandmat and Everglades bully are now protected as threatened species under the Act. The Florida prairie clover is protected as endangered. The plants are part ...

While fall symbolizes the end of the growing season in most of the country, it is just the opposite here in South Florida. My garden is a mass of colorful bloom right now: red salvia, yellow ...

It is now named the Green Croton Scale. This new scale is now found throughout South Florida on many plants, including landscape shrubs and trees and native plants and fruit trees.

Plants native to Florida are a growing presence in South Florida landscaping. But even some hard-to-find natives are fairly easy to maintain as they are adapted to our climate and poor, sandy soil.

Giant airplant is an epiphyte and like other epiphytic bromeliads, the roots are used mostly for support. They can be planted in the landscape, but when planted in the soil, the roots inhabit only ...

Researchers from the University of Miami looked at hundreds of South Florida’s diverse plant species and tried to answer how, or if, the trees will survive the heat expected in the coming decades.

It’s a muggy day with enough gray clouds overhead and choppy waves on Biscayne Bay to make us think we could get a downpour at any moment. But that doesn’t stop Tiffany Noé, 31, and her ...