Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q I have a group of beautiful Aeonium plants, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time.

Among the luscious foliage spilling out of the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show Houseplant Studios, there's one small succulent that instantly charms. With beautiful pink and green-striped variegation, ...

Even during these cold and bleak winter months, some succulent plants are going through their primary growth period. The “winter grower” (or “summer dormant”) succulents include several popular genera ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column introduced a project to exchange two groups of plants to provide better growing conditions: moving aeoniums from the ground to containers ...

This time of year evening night lights burn brighter, the stars shimmer ever so slightly in the night sky and the early morning dew sparkles in reflective light across our gardens. The feelings of ...

For those of you who are into botanical trivia, see if you can answer the following existential (having to do with life and death) question: What do carrots, radishes, lettuce, agaves, fishtail palms, ...

We hear the message to conserve water a lot nowadays, and it’s little wonder with another year of drought stressing our state. Conserving water is a principle of Earth-friendly gardening and both the ...