Planting a hedgerow is an excellent way to attract pollinators to your garden. Question: I have heard that planting a hedgerow next to my vegetable garden will encourage pollinators and other ...

Full disclosure: I wasn't always a fan of California native plants because, honestly, I didn't know anything about them. I was too busy being googly eyed over show-stopper ornamentals like roses. My ...

Using a shovel’s blade to measure, Piper Rothschild mapped out the size of a round hole for a sapling. The hole needs to be twice as wide as the sapling’s root, she instructed the community volunteers ...

Pulling weeds is a regular task for Bruce Schwartz in his native garden, which is more about creating habitat than traditional landscaping. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) So you've torn out your ...

Shoppers browse the native plant selections during The Nature Institute’s Wildflower Market. Ann Osburn pulls more plants from The Nature Institute’s greenhouse for sale during Saturday’s Wildflower ...

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in ...