Did you know you can grow pineapples in the Bay Area? OK, not actual pineapples but a wonderful perennial known as pineapple lily. This bulbous South African native, Eucomis, is found in a wide range ...

The Garden Guy fell in love with the pineapple lily during his years as director of the Coastal Georgia Botanical Garden in Savannah. Every year the pineapple lilies returned and displayed their ...

Q I bought a pineapple lily bulb at Canada Blooms three years ago. For the first and second summers, it had a lovely big stalk of flowers. This year, four lilies came up but there were no flowers. The ...

In Colonial America, the rare pineapple fruit was often depicted in finials and other garden ornaments as a sign of hospitality. Today, we consider the pineapple a common fruit. However, the South ...

Growth habit: An upright-growing lily that sprouts shoots from an underground bulb and grows to 2 feet tall. The leaves are straplike and bright green and grow to 2 feet long and 2 inches wide. Light: ...

Picture this: a luscious green mountain range littered off and on with flowers of every type. Lower in the mountains is green vegetation, higher up are grasslands. Eucomis, or pineapple lilies, have a ...

RALEIGH, NC - The authors of a new study say that bringing new types of cut flowers to market is good for consumers and the floral industry. Alicain Carlson and John Dole published a study in the ...

PINEAPPLE lily is a very descriptive common name because the shape of the flower spike resembles a pineapple fruit. The spike is made up of dozens of small open trumpet flowers and it really looks ...

When I first set out as a gardener, no one I knew grew pineapple lilies in their gardens. The only places you were ever likely to find these summer flowering plants, with their exceptionally exotic ...

Bristly locust – Robinia hispida is native in the SE US. This member of the pea family has purple/pink clusters of pea-like blooms in late May – June. The stems are covered in long, reddish hairs that ...