When I help people design home landscapes, a common request is to have something blooming year-round. However, it can be hard to ensure a yard has just the right mix of plants to be perpetually in ...

Q: I bought a “My Monet” weigela several years ago. It looks healthy and is growing well. I bought it for the variegated leaves, but for the past couple of years, the new growth is just plain green.

Variegated vinca goes by many names. It’s a variegated form of Vinca major, also known as greater periwinkle. It’s also known as bigleaf periwinkle (Vinca major ‘Variegata’), and the “variegated” part ...

Many people choose variegated plant materials in an effort to provide an accent or a bit of color in their landscape. What can be very frustrating is a few years after planting and establishment the ...

Collecting unique houseplants is one of my favorite hobbies and Ficus Elastica 'Tineke', or variegated rubber plant, is one I wanted for a very long time. It's has the most beautiful creamy colours ...

You've probably tried growing a succulent before, whether you picked up it as a cute desk plant or ended up with one as a gift. But while you might be familiar with the plump green leaves of common ...

Schematic diagram showing the formation of the A-type plastome in D. tasmanica through intermolecular recombination of the G-type plastome. The first recombination mediated by the 11-bp IRs merges two ...

This tree (see photo) has both variegated and normal leaves, with leaves of both types on the same branch. Can anyone explain this distribution of different leaves on the same plant? This tree (see ...