The good news: There are still lovely flowers gracing all sorts of gardens, parks, and wild expanses across Southern California. The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants ...

Joe Tarica [email protected] Whitedaisy tidytips, or layia glandulosa, are hardy plants ... Central Valley and deserts. It can grow up to 1.3 feet tall with pale, pinkish purple flowers ...

Editor’s note: Once a month, OSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers in Franklin County profile a plant that occurs naturally in Central ... quails and wild turkeys. Native Americans used ...

The easiest ways to tell the two plants apart are where they grow and counting the number of petals on the flowers. Wild phlox has five, like the number of letters in its name, while Dame’s ...

To avoid purchasing plants that have been dug from the wild, the Missouri Botanical Garden, whose researchers have worked with Wilson to study tulips in Central Asia, recommend buyers look for ...

A very few domesticated popular native species include sunflower, pecans and black walnut and northern species like cranberries and wild ... Plants Program at Lincoln University in Central ...

and seasonal flowers and fruits. Discover how to forage wild plants, even in your backyard, including those so-called “weeds!” Central Texas Gardener is a local public television program ...

A small red buckeye tree is covered with red flower clusters, and a variegated willow has fresh yellowish leaves. In the wild many plants are also blooming, although most of them aren’t native.

And it, along with mildly warming temperatures, will soon send plants up out of the ground ... This species is native from Central Mexico down to Guatemala, and sure is a rarity in North America.

Now that we’ve finally gotten some decent amounts of rain the outside world is looking green and, in some places, almost lush. We’re still not even with normal rainfall amounts for the year ...