Palm Sunday is April 13 and palms have long been a symbol of sunny California. There are many different types of palms around ...

Summer is the best time for eating fresh, just-out-of-the-garden vegetables. Green beans, peas, corn, okra, squash, I could go on and on. Many of these plants produce seeds that we love. All plants ...

(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Electric flash grass tree (Cordyline ‘Electric flash’). An unusual monocot, this plant has narrow ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...