Welcome to the December issue of the L.A. Times Plants newsletter. Yes, I know it’s the holidays. However, we have plenty to keep plant people busy this month. First, let me share what I learned from ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, Calif. – November 28, 2023 – Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has unveiled the new California Native Plant ...

Gardening involves a short list of objectives: landscape beauty, drought tolerance, fire resistance (for vulnerable areas), and the enjoyment of gardening. Today’s column focuses on the benefits of ...

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future. Looking out the front windows of their Northeast L ...

It took decades, stacks of legal paperwork and countless phone calls, but, in the spring of 2025, a California Chuckchansi ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is the first to focus exclusively on California native plants, and now they’re inspiring landscapers to do the same. The California native ...

About a year or so after Sherry Ashbaugh and her husband moved into their home on a sprawling corner lot in El Cajon, they began to focus on creating a native garden. The couple had both worked in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — The City of Sacramento is ...