Banana trees are one of more than 80 species of flowering plants in the Musa genus. Bananas are huge herbaceous plants with fleshy, upright stalks from which large, oblong, bright green leaves ...

Answer: New banana plants are not quick producers. Most need about two years to grow a mature plant with an offshoot or two and then settle down to flower and fruit. Since your banana plant is ...

Orchids are one of the most popular houseplants due to their beautiful and unusual blooms but if they're not flowering as ...

Question. Our banana developed a flowering shoot that is now forming fruits on a tall plant. How long before they ripen? Answer. Nice! Your crop made it through the winter to flower during the ...

At first glance, casual gardeners almost always mistake the white bird-of-paradise for a banana plant. That’s understandable. Unlike the more common bird-of-paradise, which grows only about six ...

Roses are now in full bloom, which means gardeners will be busy trying to prolong their life. A few simple ingredients could ...

Exotic-looking flowers may have a reputation for being difficult to grow, but there are plenty to choose from that grow well during our warm summer weather and will give you bold foliage and unique ...

Banana shrubs and Carolina allspice are both members of a group of flowering plants called Magnoliids.

It turns out there is a very simple way to get bigger and longer lasting flowers on orchids, and all you need is a food leftover that most people throw away every day.

ABOUT one in 20 flowering plants are naturally transgenic, carrying bacterial DNA within their genomes. The added genes can make them produce unusual chemicals, and the species they have been ...