Q: My Mexican bird of paradise was gorgeous this year, the best ever. The flowers are now going to seed pods. Should I cut it back? What is the proper way to care for this plant as it moves into fall ...

Not only is it beautiful, but pollinators love it too, and it’s a near-native, coming from Mexico. The Mexican bird-of-paradise grows as a large shrub or a small tree, depending how you prune it. It ...

1 Aphids love weather like this, and they multiply quickly, sapping the strength from a wide array of plants and producing sticky honeydew. Aphids are easily controlled with an abundance of ladybugs, ...

An easy tropical plant for the central Ohio home (during the cold of winter) and outdoors (during the warmth of summer) is bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae). A relative of the banana, the plant ...

Paradise is associated with the sort of ideal life Adam and Eve lived in the Garden of Eden — prior to eating from the Tree of Knowledge — when the phenomenon of death did not yet exist. How ...

Q. I have a big-leaf bird of paradise, 8 to 10 feet tall, planted in the ground. I have had it about eight years, and it has never bloomed. What can I do to encourage flowers? The foliage is nice. -- ...