Struggling with your Wilmington garden? These five native plants are heat tolerant and perfect for coastal soil.

Or, as the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden invites, smell the plumerias at its 12th annual Plumeria Festival, ...

Just like peaches and cherries, it’s easy to grow an apricot tree at home. All you need is the pit from a local apricot and a ...

California gardeners are genuinely lucky, even if it doesn’t always feel that way in summer when the lawn is begging for ...

But so is spying a small tree in your neighbor's yard, a stunning and scent-filled shrub brimming with plumeria blossoms.

1. Sow turnips now for quick late-summer roots. Choose a sunny, open patch with fine, moist soil, and sow thinly in shallow ...

People generally believe that it is necessary to have a big backyard or orchard to grow fruit trees. However, some fruit trees can be cultivated in pots and still bear lots of fruit, provided there is ...

Spring is usually a tug-of-war between winter and summer. This year, summer effortlessly dragged Old Man Winter over the line. The hum of bees amidst fragrant flowering trees is magic to the senses.

If you're looking for a tree to plant in your yard during spring that offers up pretty blooms through the summer, take a look at the Japanese tree lilac (Syringa reticulata). Generally speaking, many ...

What flowering trees do you recommend for planting in home landscapes? We are fortunate to have a wide array of flowering trees that will grow in our climate. One of the earliest that has almost ...