If you inserted a thousand famous poems into a big, bulb-lined thinking machine, specifically poems about various months, and you proceeded to search for the word "flower," chances are as good as an ...

Clearly, there's no shortage of flowers in Southern California. As I write this near the end of 2024, roses, iris and California fuchsia are still blooming in my Ventura garden, and hummingbirds are ...

Just in time for bulb-planting season, “Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden” (Timber Press, 2024) is at hand. It is written by Jacqueline van der Kloet who has designed bulb gardens all over the world ...

California native plants tend to be more modest than their hyper-gaudy non-native cousins more readily available on nursery shelves. Many California native plants also go dormant in the summer, which ...