Plants Choto specializes in exotic and tropical plants but offers more common, low-maintenance greenery as well.

For another surprising but welcome addition, the store just released a variety of tropical foliage. “Don’t skip the plant section at Costco this week!!” one Costco finds Instagram creator wrote.

The professor was suggesting planting waves of emerald-green banana plants on Southern California's parched hills in an effort to help protect communities from wildfires.

The Southern California Plumeria Society is hosting its annual Plumeria Festival at Balboa Park, featuring thousands of ...

Speaking of milkweeds, care should be taken to plant California native species as opposed to tropical milkweed.

Such people, and the plants they grow, are typically full of wonderful surprises. Just the other day, I met Ash Jahanbin, whose mission in life is to grow and to care for exotic fruit trees.

These tropical fruit trees and plants are thriving at a Southern California nursery Cherimoya. (Photo courtesy of Papaya Tree Nursery) ...

Vegetative keys are not easy shortcuts to the identification of woody tropical plants to species. Identification of sterile material requires as much, if not more, training as that required for using ...