The Mounts Botanical Garden near West Palm Beach is a botanist dream and a tree lover's delight, offering 7,000 species of plants that thrive in South Florida's subtropical climate.

Topics included annuals, hardy perennials, alpines and subtropical plants, as well as accounts of his travels. High Victorian garden fashion involved formal beds of exotic and hothouse flowers.

It's part of a trend of Mediterranean and sub-tropical plants thriving in recent years, they say. Some varieties previously thought of as houseplants are now growing successfully outside ...

It is native to South America, particularly Brazil, but can now be found in many tropical and subtropical regions around the ...