The California Native Plant Society’s CalScape database (calscpe.org) is a powerful planning tool for designing a California native garden. There are no comparable garden design tools for other summer ...

The flowers are attractive to butterflies and bees. Notes from calscape.org. This photo shows a related species, Santa Barbara Daisy (E. karvinskianus). (Courtesy Tom Karwin) Monardella villosa ...

There are many ways to capture and store rainwater, but likely the best and easiest place is in the soil. To help move water ...

Would you like a spring super bloom in your own garden? It’s easy, and now through the end of November is the ideal time for ...

Kemnitz suggested people visit the Calscape website (calscape.org) to find native plants that would work in their garden, along with local nurseries and even landscape professionals. One plant ...