When it's cold out, I always find it refreshing to take a stroll through a conservatory at a botanic garden. Inside this warm, greenhouse-like atmosphere, I can immerse myself among gorgeous exotic ...

"Anybody can have goldfish," said Robert Fuchs, showing off the 12-foot-deep fishpond in his orchid-draped walled garden near the Everglades. In the pool, a glittering mass of Brazilian red-tail ...

The mass production and breeding of orchids might have made these colorful plants more common and affordable, but it hasn’t diminished their power to mesmerize. “They have this sort of mystique to ...