On a warm, humid August morning I followed Richard Primack, a biology professor and plant ecologist at Boston University, down a steep, brushy trail, then across a flat muddy area adjacent to the ...

If you lived in ancient Greece and someone told you they were growing a hibiscus plant, you may have then inquired about coming by to roast marshmallows once the plant’s roots were well-established, ...

An almost tropical-looking pink flower in the hibiscus family grows tall at the edge of a wetland in the Cook County forest preserves near Palos Park. The flower, a swamp rose mallow, is a rare sight ...

Surprise! What are those spectacular pink, red and white flowers, the size of salad plates, unfolding in the late summer garden? Don’t they belong on a balmy Pacific island? Those are the blooms of ...

Rose mallows - relatives of tropical hibiscus plants - have stunning flowers the size of dessert plates that can stop you in your tracks. Newton residents can treat themselves to up-close sidewalk ...

Got any flowers that are the size of a dinner plate? Get a native Hibiscus, also known as Rose Mallow, and you'll have loads of flowers so big, the first time I saw them I thought they were fake - ...