You know it’s springtime when the tabebuia trees are in bloom. The trees, native to subtropical climes, are easy to spot. The beautiful bright yellow blooms (or purple or pink-ish) have been bursting ...

A yellow tabebuia in Central Florida. Springtime in South Florida means the bloom of those little yellow flowers on trees across the region. Those are tabebuia trees (pronounced tah-beh-BOO-ya). We ...

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 ...

Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...

Summer has faded and gone. Autumn’s bright foliage does compensate, somewhat, for the dearth of flowers, but a few of my trees and shrubs (and several perennials) bloom in October, and I treasure them ...

O ne of the prettiest sights in Salt Lake during summer months is golden-yellow flowers cascading down Amaltash trees. Plenty of them grow in our avenues and their flowers resemble bunches of grapes ...

The fiery red flowers of the Palash tree — that rightfully earns its name of ‘flame of the forest’ — is in full bloom in the national capital these days. Spotting them is a fairly easy task too. But ...