Keep these tropical plants looking their best with this simple guide. The benefits of pruning a bird of paradise plant Pruning a bird of paradise isn't just for keeping its shape and size in check.

However, most of us are familiar with only three (did you know there’s a white-blooming bird of paradise?), and only two are fit for living indoors. In South Africa, where the plant is said to o ...

Q: We have three bird of paradise plants in our backyard ... it’s normal if they produce leaves and no flowers for a season or two. They reach a certain size, or maturity, to begin flowering ...

I visited my sister at her home in Phoenix recently. On the patio in her backyard she has several bougainvillea and bird of paradise. She told me that these plants won't grow here in the Albuquerque ...

Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise. Others evoke lobster claws or toucan beaks. Gardeners have cultivated Heliconia species for centuries as striking ...

Heliconia bella in Panama. This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and one of the authors of the new study.