From California native wildflowers to historic Midcentury Modern design, this guide offers details about spring garden tours ...

About a year or so after Sherry Ashbaugh and her husband moved into their home on a sprawling corner lot in El Cajon, they began to focus on creating a native garden. The couple had both worked in the ...

Native plants are flowers, shrubs, trees, and groundcovers that have existed in a region for thousands of years. They are well-adapted to the region's climate, and they've coevolved with the local ...

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

You’ve been hearing much about native plants and how important they are for supporting wildlife, restoring ecosystems and ...

For many of us, the world we live in has become so complex and fast-paced that we seek out ways to relax and recharge. Perhaps, in response to this, one of the new trends in contemporary landscaping ...

If you can create a native garden that looks at home on the grounds of a historic Philadelphia Main Line estate, you can do it anywhere. 13 Photos View Slide Show › By Margaret Roach The task facing ...

As The Desert Sun’s opinion and community engagement editor, I’m always looking for ways to collaborate with you, the readers — which is why I jumped at the opportunity to work with horticultural ...

The recent boom in native-plant interest focuses mainly on trees, shrubs, grasses, and perennial flowers – by far the main workhorse plants of Pennsylvania landscapes. But even with the diversity ...

Many gardeners understand the ecological importance of native plants, which are those plants that occur naturally in a geographic area, and have evolved over thousands of years, shaped by local ...

Welcome to the Venema Plaza & Gardens! Each garden bed features a collection of different native species or a specific habitat type for demonstration purposes. When you visit our gardens, you'll also ...