Estella Garcia Cantu can laughingly admit she is just as obsessed with "The Miracle Tree" in her mother's yard as her mother.

There are many flowering shrubs and trees either in bloom or just beginning to bloom right now around Southwest Florida.

In bloom, peonies certainly make a statement just ... but there are some smaller cultivated options. A cousin of the olive ...

Here, Middle East Eye explores some of the plants that bloom around Palestine ... 60-year-old Palestinian Mahfoza Oud cries and hugs her olive tree in the West Bank village of Salem after Israeli ...