A Porter Ranch family lost their huge terraced yard to the 2019 Saddleridge fire, but it gave them a blank slate to create a ...

"We are entering the fall quarter of the year, which is a good time to develop the garden," writes columnist Tom Karwin.

The Invasive Weed & Restoration Ecology Lab at UC Davis is currently exploring the use of “competitive planting” as a method for weed suppression in restored grassland communities. As part of a ...

Speakers from the California Native Plant Society San Luis Obispo chapter spoke to locals at the Santa Maria Public Library on Saturday.

If you don’t plan to have a fall/winter veggie garden this year, think about planting cover crops. Cover crops add nitrogen ...

I replied, “One of the primary goals of this restoration planting is to create habitat for the rare island night lizard, right?” “That’s right.” I continued, “Which plants are the most important for ...

Invasive plants are highly opportunistic and they don’t need much help from us to thrive, writes gardening columnist.

For decades, native plants were relegated to the “weed” section of many American gardeners' minds. Most nurseries didn’t stock them. But that’s slowly changing. Native plants provide food and shelter ...

A Bay Area-born Harvard professor was just awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine. Gary Ruvkun and Victor Ambros were both ...

Hannah showcases versatile native shrubs that can be easily integrated into any garden. We can't all plant large trees in our garden, so why not choose some compact native shrubs? They're highly ...