Fruits and vegetables need plenty of nutrients and water to thrive in a garden. California native plants prefer unamended soils and need little water once they’re established. Separation is the key to ...

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 ...

As home gardeners become more educated about the benefits of native plants (supporting native insects, birds and wildlife, and the environment as a whole), the focus has mainly been on trees, shrubs ...

Writes Steve Conway: "Looking forward to 2026, I’m excited to see new ways gardeners are exploring the potential of a local ...

As The Desert Sun’s opinion and community engagement editor, I’m always looking for ways to collaborate with you, the readers — which is why I jumped at the opportunity to work with horticultural ...

Known as the all-America fruit because they are the most familiar of only three fruit crops which originated here, blueberries are truly a plant for all seasons. They provide finely ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

GREEN BAY - If you’re looking to help out pollinators with a native plant garden, the Wild Ones Green Bay Chapter wants to help out you. The organization is offering $500 grants to members of the ...

Native trees and flowers in your garden will bring in more birds than ever before. Learn which native plants are best for ...

Fleming is one of the founders of the Worcester Native Plant Initiative hosting a workshop Jan. 24 at the Unitarian ...

The Louisiana Native Plant Society is celebrating a milestone — more than 500 landscapes across the state have been ...