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 ...

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 ...

At this time of year, it seems that yellow flowers are especially prominent in the garden. It’s as if the sun, which is suddenly more visible in the sky, has an ally in the color of so many spring ...

When Kathleen Salisbury worked in a garden center, lots of customers asked for plants with four-season interest. Most of them equated that with evergreens. Salisbury, now director of Temple University ...

The slash pine tree (Pinus elliottii) is one of four southern yellow pines native to southeastern United States. Slash pine is also called southern pine, yellow slash pine, swamp pine, pitch pine, and ...

Q: I have three large pine trees in front of my house emerging from pretty sizeable mulch beds. My beacon silver, hostas, periwinkle and hydrangea seem to be as happy as clams living in this area, and ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is considered one of the tallest ...