It's fun to choose new plants to grow in your front yard - selecting the colors, shapes, textures and sizes of the different ...

Identifying invasive plants is not always easy. But winter brings helpful clues to the branches of some habitat-altering ...

We rarely see a large stand of evergreens here to create wreaths and garland, but with some creativity, here are some ...

By Sarina Rattler As leaf cleanup continues, it also marks the time of year where the evergreens begin to shine. Many of the evergreens commonly found in landscaped yards are non-native to our area ...

It’s December in Los Angeles, but if you just arrived here from Chicago or New York and have never been here before, you may ...

Breezes wave butter yellow leaves of amsonia over fading iris foliage ... the sun — plenty to cut for Christmas decorating — and Nandina domestica displays scarlet clusters.

Winter will be here before you know it. Huh? Hasn’t it already been here for weeks? Well, yes, it has, as far as our feelings ...

I looked out my window and gasped. A fig! A fig in November. My tree produced abundantly this summer and has lost most of its ...

If you wander your neighborhood, you may realize what a great variety of materials for Holiday decorating are available in ...

Similarly, heavenly bamboo (Nandina domestic ... Plant physiologists have determined that coloration of leaves depends on carotenoid and anthocyanin pigments. Carotenoids are always present ...