Summer means many fragrant flowers blooming in abundance. Most noticeable is the family of gingers. Gingers are coming into flower a little late in forests and gardens this year due to cool weather ...

Description: Tropical ginger in the Bay Area? In a manner of speaking. Hedychium gardnerianum is one of 40 species of rhizomatous perennials from moist, lightly wooded areas throughout Asia. This ...

Visitors to our Islands frequently comment on how fragrant our air smells with the abundance of flowers in bloom. Gingers are among the easiest plants to grow for this purpose. Many species have ...

Tropical flowers grow naturally in tropical climatic countries. Guyana has a large collection of tropical blooms, which are exotic, beautiful and long lasting. They can last from seven to 14 days ...

The world has more than 1,500 ginger species, most found in the tropics and subtropics. The pineapple ginger is native to Indonesia’s Spice Islands and parts of New Guinea and Australia. Fairchild ...

There's something about the color yellow that is instantly uplifting. Yellow is one of the four primary colors. For many people, it is associated with joy, optimism, warmth, and inspiration. Many ...

The finest ginger root is grown in Jamaica, but that’s no reason you shouldn’t give it a try. A ginger plant is easy enough to get started. Just go to the local food market, buy a fresh piece, then ...

Shannon Murphy, managing editor of Guampedia, has a thriving one-acre garden bordered by the Namo River in Santa Rita. Murphy would like others to see how simple it is to create a tropical flower ...