Many gardeners say that vines are the best plants yet, to give their homes an air of tropical living by using them to cover passageways or to form patio walls. Ornamental vines, as a group, are well ...

A rainforest is a tropical or subtropical forest that receives high amounts of precipitation. Typically found near the Earth's equator, where there is high rainfall and warm temperatures, rainforests ...

Hard freezes this week have damaged tropical plants in our landscapes. For most of us, tropical plants are worth the extra effort it takes to get them through the winter by covering them and even ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Have you recently or in ...

A NASA plane came to Panama to acquire aerial images to inform scientists about the diversity of tropical ecosystems. At the same time, researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute ...

The U.K.’s Kew Gardens does far more than preserve and display 50,000 living and 7 million preserved specimens of the world’s plants; it also educates the public about the importance of plant ...

A long-term experiment reveals tropical forests in Panama are able to adapt to droughts, but scientists warn this short-term ...

Winter is coming, and who knows what it will bring us. In case of a cold winter, when we experience a freeze with temperatures down to at least 32 degrees, some precautions can be taken to protect ...