Local nurseries are filled with tropical plants for gardeners to place on their patio each summer, but many of these plants are difficult to keep alive inside the house during the wintertime.

When an ornamental horticulture professor at Cuyamaca College asked him to draft a design for a plant nursery, Carl Herzog looked at the bare, decomposed granite hillside beside his Lakeside house and ...

Plumeria, also known as frangipani, is a deciduous, semi-succulent tropical plant renowned for its fragrant and colorful flowers. Its distinctive scent can be sweet, spicy, floral, or fruity. Plumeria ...

Everyone is invited to learn all about plumeria -- the flower that ranges in hue, from pink to yellow and white -- at the ...

Plumeria is a tropical flowering plant native to Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. Common names include plumeria and frangipani. The flowers are commonly used to make the flower leis in Hawaii. There ...

Q: What is causing orange growths on the backs of my plumeria’s leaves? I have tried copper on it for rust, but it hasn’t helped. A: The University of Hawaii, as one might guess, has the definitive ...

Question: Our plumeria has grown more than eight feet tall. Can it be pruned at this time? Answer: Prune the plants back if you wish, but you may miss good flowering, which continues into the fall.