"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." This type of bird-of-paradise has wide, paddle-shaped leaves and produces bright yellow blooms with blue ...

In the middle of a Mojave Desert summer, flowers are usually not so plentiful as they are in spring. Since blossoms are the means by which plants attract pollinators and ultimately can produce their ...

Flowering ornamental landscape plants have soaked up precipitation from our recent rains. Plants in xeriscapes are positively flush with showy displays that have been made possible with our extra ...

Would you believe that an exotic Bird of Paradise, Strelitzia reginae, could be brought to bloom here in Staten Island in the middle of winter? Last August, Jeanne Keefe Hogan of Sunnyside, received a ...