Non-native plants from Mediterranean climates like Australia are getting love from even wholesale California native plant growers for drought-tolerant landscapes in SoCal.
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Growing mushrooms at home is more complicated than buying soil and seeds, but very doable with the help of premade kits. Here are expert tips on mushroom care.
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Sandra Mejia and her husband, Bantalem Adis, opened the Plant Chica to greenify South L.A. Now, they might have to leave to make way for new construction in a changing neighborhood.
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Flower vendors in the Flower District of downtown L.A. prepare cempasúchils for ofrendas and Día de Los Muertos celebrations weeks in advance.
Chad and Stacie Vanags’ backyard cutting garden has become a healing sanctuary for the couple and others, following Chad’s Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis.
For work, he tends roses at the Huntington. At home, he inspires his Watts neighbors with his low-cost, DIY garden full of native plants, herbs and food.
Southern California used to be full of little farms. Urban development closed many but some survive. Here’s where to buy produce where it was grown within L.A. and two hours away.
Earlier this year, Robert and Jeff Lavia-Garcia opened a San Pedro plant shop called Flower Tortillas. The name is a nod to their catering business and a play on ‘flour tortillas.’
California legislators passed a water-saving bill banning the use of drinking water on decorative grass outside businesses and along streets.
The summer’s historic rainfall may fuel desert wildflowers in the fall. But don’t expect to see the same flowers as a spring superbloom.
Marissa Engoy of Good Morning, Cactus began posting photos of her plant arrangements on social media and found herself immersed in the online plant community.
The rare corpse flower bloom, one of the latest in the season at Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, was pushed back by Hurricane Hilary.
Los Angeles County has more than 100 community gardens. Here is why you might want to join one and how to get started growing food and community.
Associate curator Brandon Tam keeps watch over at least 10,000 orchids with 1,500 unique species inside the Huntington’s dedicated greenhouses.
From sequoias to bristlecone pines, millions of California trees are succumbing to worsening wildfires, severe drought, extreme heat and disease.
