At this time of year, when the summer’s bounty of dahlias, zinnias, cosmos and roses have started to fade from memory, I find myself scouring the garden for colorful flowers to brighten up the indoors ...

Sophie is exploring a family of plants that are low-maintenance, spectacular in the garden, and last well in a vase – it’s the Proteaceae, which cover a wide range of flowering shrubs, mostly found in ...

New species of flowering plants called proteas are exploding onto the scene three times faster in parts of Australia and South Africa than anywhere else in the world, creating exceptional 'hotspots' ...

What a crazy winter we’ve had. Dry, dry, dry and then torrential rains and winds! How has your garden fared? With days still cool and the sun still low in the sky, plants don’t need much water unless ...

To get to the very top parcels of land in Rainbow owned by Ismael “Mel” Resendiz, you have to drive up a long, narrow road, much of it paved, some — oy — not, with more hairpin curves than the Grand ...

HELEN, MORPHETT VALE SA: Could you please tell me, with my Protea, should I cut it right back to where these half dead leaves start and will it, kind of, come good? STEPHEN RYAN: Well, it's obviously ...

The King Protea’s status offers it some protection but almost half of South Africa's other protea species face extinction because of pressures on their native habitats in the mountains of the Cape, ...