Unusual HousePlants: A Ti plant, Cordyline terminalis, is one of the most colorful foliage plants you can purchase. Its cane-like woody stems produce sword-shaped leaves that are 2ft-5ft. in length and 5”-7” wide.

Whether indoors or out, bird of paradise plants require bright light, well-drained soil and adequate water through the growing season. Read this article to learn how to take care of birds of paradise in the garden. Click here for more info.

The ‘Red Sister’ is a tropical perennial shrub also known as the Hawaiian ti plant. Its distinctive burgundy-pink and bronze-green foliage adds color to any flower garden. Red Sister is an evergreen shrub with a trunk like a palm. The fruit is in the form of red berries. Cordylines are known by many names and have also been crowned as the ‘King of Tropical Foliage’.

Tropicanna Gold is perhaps the showiest of all of the variegated cannas and one of the best for hot, humid, sunny southern gardens.

Hibiscus Fertilizer - with correct feeding, plants grow vigorously and produce large beautiful flowers. For success feed the right way regularly.

Plumeria Flower Fertilizer: When And How To Fertilize Plumeria - When they bloom, plumeria produce beautiful, fragrant flowers. Getting them to bloom can be tricky, though, and requires the right fertilizer, particularly if they are in containers. Learn more plumeria fertilizer information here.

Plumeria, also known as frangipani, temple tree and Hawaiian lei flower, is a deciduous flowering shrub or small tree that is native to tropical Mexico, Central America and Venezuela.

Phlomis russeliana, commonly known as Jerusalem Sage or Turkish Sage, brings interest to the garden almost all year-round! First, with its originating flower buds and the resultant flowers themselves in summer, then with its distinctive dome-shaped seed heads in fall and winter. This evergreen perennial features pale yellow hooded flowers in architectural whorled clusters that rise well above the basal foliage, which consists of a low ground-covering mound, up to 15 in. tall (37 cm), of…

Phlomis fruticosa, or Jerusalem Sage, is an edible, drought-tolerant landscaping option for your garden. Learn to grow it here.

The ginger lily (Hedychium) exotic-looking, fragrant flowers, summer bloomer, easy to grow, bright light, rich soil, Kahili ginger

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Pruning is one of the most important maintenance tasks for the landscape, but every plant has a different time and method. Need to know how to prune a bird of paradise? Bird of paradise can be lightly trimmed at any point, but serious pruning should wait. Learn more here.

This 1992 Larry Shatzer hybrid (probably Hedychium flavescens x gardnerianum), introduced by Florida's former Gainesville Tree Farm, is one of the longest-flowering of the ginger lilies, starting here in late July or early August and continuing until frost. The 4'+ tall stalks are topped with scrumptious, golden-yellow flowers with a dark gold throat. In early evening, the air is perfumed with their strong honeysuckle-like fragrance. When happy in moist, well-drained soils, the rapidly…

The dazzling beauty of its leaf variegation is only offset by Cream Sickles amazing tower of tangerine colored flowers which appear in summer to fall. Cream Sickle often reaches 4 to 5 feet in height during its growing season. Hedychium do well in partial shade.

Read how to propagate Ti Plant and more plant details here.

The Ti Plant propagation article that has become Google's #2 ranked topic on the subject. A 'How To' with many photos.