Use these strategies for landscaping with natives to create a beautiful space that requires less care. Landscaping with native plants is catching on, and it’s easy to see why. Not only is using native ...

When the Gorman Museum of Native American Art relocated to a space adjacent to the UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden in 2023, a seed was planted. Why not include Indigenous California plants ...

If you’re thinking about re-landscaping the yard, you might want to consider some ideas from the 15th Annual Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour. This self-driving tour, which rolls through ...

Lexie Glass and her husband, Evan Hursley, tore out their lawns and created gardens that are drought-resistant, attractive to wildlife and beautiful. The couple began the process of replacing their ...

Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Layer your garden from pathway to treetop for beauty, wildlife, and good eating. Explore a native plant garden that ...

Native California plants can add color to a water-saving landscape, while attracting hummingbirds and butterflies. Image courtesy San Diego County Water Authority Thirteenth in a series republished ...

With the arrival of autumn, many area green thumbs are busy removing spent plants and making plans for next year’s landscape. Local proprietors in the native landscaping business, however, would like ...

Maybe you had a particularly pleasant afternoon watching bees forage from your squash flowers, or someone gave you a pot of mountain mint with the advice that it's a great native plant. You've come to ...

On a warm morning early in the summer of 2010, Anthony Marinello plunged a shovel into the ground in the front yard of his parents’ West Hempstead home and began to dig. The recent high school ...

Long before it grows its classic black and orange wings, the Monarch butterfly begins its life among the hooded flowers of ...

Greg Rubin grins as he recalls his unlikely evolution from aerospace engineer to renowned champion of California native plants. “In the mid-’80s, my parents were helping me with college in exchange ...

California native plants are adaptable to many situations and designs. They thrive on little water (unless they grow near streams), add color and attract birds and beneficial insects to the garden.