For your croton plant to burst with radiance, author and plant expert Linda Ly of Garden Betty shares her best tips on how to properly care for this splashy houseplant. Common croton varieties.

This week's Houseplants 101 shines a spotlight on a plant that's colorful (croton) and one that's all green but makes up for its appearance with its beneficial qualities (aloe vera).

The croton plant, scientifically known as Codiaeum-variegatum, is most often used as an indoor houseplant in our region. The leaves of this unusual plant are large and can be 3 to 6 inches in ...

Crotons are one of the most popular houseplants thanks to their vividly patterned, multicolored leaves. But these tropical plants can be a little finicky, responding to problems with their care or ...

At one time he had his own collection of 60 to 80 different named varieties of crotons." Many croton varieties never made it to the catalogues, and many were unnamed. Others were named but not shared.

It is now named the Green Croton Scale. This new scale is now found throughout South Florida on many plants, including landscape shrubs and trees and native plants and fruit trees.

Robert Halgrim of Fort Myers, who came to Florida from Iowa in 1913, was one of the early fanciers of the croton, a plant that’s as diverse as it is durable. As a teen-ager, he had the good ...