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Native Plant Garden Design Course Begins This Weekend in Sun Valley

Just because you live in LA, doesn't mean you can't have your own garden. Beginning this weekend, a course in Native Plant Garden Design...
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A tea garden can be a place to enjoy a traditional tea or to grow it

Prickly thickets of California wild rose, Rosa californica, are not often much to look at, even while adorned with small and sparse pink roses with...
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Native trees like alders are just as happy in gardens as they are in the wild.

During the summer, the native white alder, Alnus rhombifolia, is a nice shade tree that looks bigger than it really is. By late winter, the bare...
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Even the median of San Vicente Boulevard may not be big enough for valley oaks.

‘Foggy Oak Morning’ by Karen Asherah, is another example of the local scenery that we sometimes take for granted. This happy tree is a...
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Our Lord's candle puts the 'yuc' in 'yucca'.

The one or two foot long and nearly inch wide leaves of our Lord's candle, Yucca whipplei, certainly do not look as painful as they really are....
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Native but unconventional manzanita works in unrefined parts of the garden

Mature common manzanita, Arctostaphylos manzanita, can get more than fifteen feet tall and about half as wide, so can be rather large shrubbery or...
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Be careful what you plant in Los Angeles landscapes

Although there is a whole list available of invasive plants that have been declared pests in California, many people still plant these plants --...
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Make your Los Angeles yard work for you

Most houses and some condos and apartments in the Los Angeles area come with at least some yard space. All too often, this space is filled in with...
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California Poppies and more are at their peak at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

This year is an amazing year for the California Poppies at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve. Flowers cover the ground and hillside for miles. If...
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Los Angeles garden and wild flowers in spring

Spring is the time to both love and hate the growth from this year’s rains in the Los Angeles area. The hillsides are still blooming with...
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