Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice with area gardeners about bird of paradise plants, sun, soil, fertilizer, camellia shrubs, leaf miners, spinosad, key lime trees, trimming, fruit ...

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 ...

An easy tropical plant for the central Ohio home (during the cold of winter) and outdoors (during the warmth of summer) is bird of paradise (Strelitzia reginae). A relative of the banana, the ...

'When it comes to indoor bird of paradise plants, you can prune them year-round as needed, though spring is still the best pick.' Spring is also a good time to repot bird of paradise plants.

Below, we explain further how to care for bird-of-paradise plants correctly with tips from Neimann. There are even tricks on how to repot and move your plant outside to create a lush backyard ...

The Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice about caring for bird of paradise, warns of toxic balsam pear plants and suggests treatment for a droopy camellia bush.

Q: We planted some bird of paradise plants about two years ago. They had a few flowers when we bought them but they never made any more flowers. What do we need to do to get them to flower? A: I ...

Mexican bird of paradise (Caesalpinia mexicana): This plant is my favorite of all the bird of paradise plants. It can grow as a shrub or a small tree, and has beautiful bright yellow flowers.