Many California natives require fire to germinate their seeds and so we could see some of them sprouting this winter and spring where wildfires burned.

Growing from seed is always the best way to experience the charms of annual poppies or to expand your collection of cheerful, citrus-colored biennial Iceland poppies (Papaver nudicaule), a sure ...

Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.” (W.E. Johns) One day as I looked out the ...