Late August and September may not be the most favorite times in the garden. Some flowers are dead, some soon will be, while many remainders hardly try. But in late summer, one plant hasn't given up.

Ginger lily (Hedychium coronarium), or platanillo in Spanish, is a hardy ornamental for the tropical home garden that provides lush tropical foliage and fragrant flowers. An herbaceous perennial ...

If you’re a daffodil lover, you may have wondered about the flower’s famous trumpeting, cupped receptacle. It’s called a corona — and botanists are confounded, too, as to its function. However, the ...

If fragrance is the strongest trigger of memory, then the scent of ginger lilies must surely be the key to calling up the most delicious recollections of summer. The ginger, or butterfly lily, ...

A: You should aerate when the soil is so hard that air can't get to the roots and the roots can't expand. How to test? A few days after a rain, try to push a Phillips head screwdriver into the soil.

Hot on the heels of last week’s featured plant, osmanthus, is another sweet-smelling fall bloomer, the ginger lily. Known botanically as Hedychium coronarium, ginger lily is a tropical herbaceous ...

The famous trumpeting, cupped receptacle on daffodils is called a corona, and botanists are confounded as to its function. However, the presence of the corona does assist us in explaining why daffodil ...

Hot on the heels of last week’s featured plant, osmanthus, is another sweet-smelling fall bloomer, the ginger lily. Known botanically as Hedychium coronarium, ginger lily is a tropical herbaceous ...