Irene Hennessy and her husband, Ian, have been developing and growing heliconias and gingers for almost 10 years on their park-style rural garden at Noonamah, south of Darwin. Many of their gingers ...

Q. My oleander blooms nicely in April and is supposed to be a dwarf. It grows to about 8 feet before it blooms. I prune it back each spring. Are there different types of oleander? See the enclosed ...

Heliconias originate from the rainforest where they grow as understory plants. In Central and South Florida, they are grown as landscape plants and in cut flower gardens. The flowers produced and the ...

Tropical plants in the genus Heliconia attract hummingbirds, bats and other creatures in the wild — and intrigue plant collectors, who prize them for their intense colors, dramatic beak-like ...