Flowers. Who doesn’t enjoy them? Here in Central Florida, a great many of our landscape plants bloom for months on end – and do it year after year. A 10-foot hibiscus shrub, for example, might live ...

Pearl acacia is a large shrub, native to Australia, that can be pruned into a tidy 10- to 20-foot-tall tree. From late fall ...

Some plants bloom every year; others surprise you once a decade. But a rare group of species takes patience to a breathtaking extreme, they flower only once, after which the entire plant or tree dies.

Q: Several years ago at the university orchard on Horse Drive, you gave us a list of five different peach trees to plant, each ripening at different times. We’ve enjoyed peaches from May through ...

For many plants, pruning in late winter can ruin your flower display. But for these summer bloomers, it'll have the opposite ...

Pruning maple trees, birches, and willows in winter is not recommended because they are prone to excessive sap running from ...