Susan Spradley, a volunteer for California Botanic Garden's Native Designs group, assembles a bouquet made from native foliage and flowers, including glossy hollyleaf cherry branches and sunflowers, ...

Attention, anyone who thinks native blooms are brilliant in the wild — or our yards — but don’t work in bouquets. Boy, are we wrong. This isn’t an invitation to trample wildflower fields to pick ...

This porterweed has a right to feel blue: Not only are its blossoms tiny, the plant is handicapped by the "weed" word. Seriously, though, this species (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis), native from Florida ...

Beat the winter blues by planting now — from snapdragons to foxgloves, these spring flowers started from seed will have ...

WASHINGTON — Native perennials are a win-win when it comes to landscaping here in the D.C. region. Native means they are native to the area, and support our local ecosystem like birds and butterflies.

* What it is: ‘Blue Moon’ is a heavy and long-blooming variety of our Pennsylvania native woodland phlox. Its blue-violet flowers are bigger than the species, offer early-spring food to pollinators, ...

You can plant dormant trees and shrubs and sow native plant seeds in January to get a head start on your garden. Discover ...

A bunch of berries hang from a toyon bush in Edgewood Park & Natural Preserve in Redwood City on Jan. 28, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Deep pink warrior’s plume, red Toyon berries and white coast ...

Wildflowers usually start blooming in March in Southern California, but a dry winter means we’re unlikely to see large swaths of poppies and other native annuals in 2025. One reason: Our total ...

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 ...