For nearly a quarter century, Barry Schlueter crossed the best hibiscus parents to create seedlings that stopped flower-show judges and commercial growers in their tracks. There was no question.

Cross the exotic and kinky with a treasure-trove of color, and what do you get? `Heartbreak Hotel,' a tropical hibiscus with mahogany-red flowers ornamentally sprinkled and splashed with yellow-gold.

Tustin from its earliest days has been known as a place of beauty with specimen trees and colorful plantings, but many local gardeners are unaware that the beautiful floribunda and hybrid tea roses ...

When Tom Carruth was 10 years old, he announced to his parents that he wanted to pursue a career in flowers -- news not particularly well received in the small Panhandle town of Pampa, Texas, where ...

Tom Carruth is to rosarians as Tiger Woods is to golfers. He’s a legend in the world of rose hybridizing, with more All-America Rose Selections winners than any other living hybridizer. Carruth ...

Hybridizing plants is an easy process: bees do it. They’re usually pollinating plants of the same species, but occasionally, they move a plant’s pollen to a different, compatible species and, without ...

People collect antique coins, wristwatches, porcelain eggcups and shellac disks. Internationally acclaimed bromeliad hybridizer Chester Skotak collects plants, as well as eccentric characters. His ...

One of Viji Abi’s dreams was to have a waterlily with her name, a hybrid variety that she propagated. The dream was realised when the Thailand-based International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society ...