"You did it beautifully!" Homeowner shares stunning before-and-after photos after turning backyard into 'tropical forest': ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “Mandevillas are easy for the home gardener to grow,” says Maria Bolinger, territory manager for Ball ...

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 ...

FORTUNATELY, Chip Brooks likes bananas, because he is surely getting his fill this fall. Brooks is eating bananas with his cereal every morning. One is always on hand for a snack, and he need only ...

Make a splash with your next birthday by throwing a tropical-themed pool party! We’ll help you get started with pool party ...