Faced with more drought and increasingly frequent wildfires, Southern Californians have been encouraged, for years, to rip ...

The native landscape is chaparral, not forest—and clearing out the brush could make fires even worse. When the Palisades Fire ...

Here are plants and flowers to enjoy, one for every month of the year, from lilacs, camellias and poinsettias to native buckwheat, wildflowers and toyon.

Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping have reshaped the ...

California native of the week: Two California native trees have foliage that turns a vibrant gold at this time of year. One of them is velvet or Modesto ash (Fraxinus velutina var. Modesto).

I often wonder what our parkways would look like in winter if the crape myrtles planted there possessed colorful bark.

President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California, in part to honor two ...