Save Our Water encourages over 300,000 Angelenos to learn about native plants and water-wise landscaping to help respond to California's extreme drought "Californians know that we're facing extreme ...

If you are thinking about making your yard more sustainable or eco-friendly in the coming year, have you considered creating ...

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 ...

As gardeners, we are drawn to the latest, brightest varieties of thirsty, exotic species for our gardens, always chasing the new and unusual. As our world heats up with climate change, water-thirsty ...

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 ...

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Nonnative jacaranda trees in South Pasadena arguably amount to an "island of sterility" as far as the natural ecosystem is concerned. (David McNew / Getty Images) Prevailing notions of responsible ...

When it comes to climate change mitigation, using fire in scientific ways in order to minimize wildfire damage may seem like an unlikely solution. And yet it is a long-standing Indigenous tradition ...

“Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont,” said Lady Bird Johnson, who was the First Lady of the ...

Chuckwalla National Monument is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and ...