Encinitas planners and officials are pursuing local legislation to improve standards and transparency around native plant landscaping.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes ...

As gardeners, we are drawn to the latest, brightest varieties of thirsty, exotic species for our gardens, always chasing the new and unusual. As our world heats up with climate change, water-thirsty ...

Over the past few months, the controversy over the landscaping of the traffic islands in Pacheco Valle in Novato has received much publicity, both in print and on television. The publicity, as well as ...

California’s native flora is world famous for its beauty, durability and diversity. The interaction between California’s topography, geology, biota and climate create a specialized set of plants that ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

When it comes to climate change mitigation, using fire in scientific ways in order to minimize wildfire damage may seem like an unlikely solution. And yet it is a long-standing Indigenous tradition ...