Many municipalities and utilities around L.A. offer free trees for residents to plant in their yards or they will add trees to parkways. Here’s a list.

Harvesting and drying your backyard pot plants doesn’t need to be complicated. Here are four easy pointers to help you maximize your botanical bonanza.

Aurora Anaya unexpectedly fell in love with California native plants and vowed to create her own native plant habitat around her corner lot in Whittier. A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and endangered monarch butterflies.

The landscapes around L.A.’s ports of entry are bleak and ugly, but we can work together and beautify our city for the 2028 Olympics.

Los Angeles paid $12,500 to raze a native plant garden in Elysian Park to protect a metal storage shed from fire. Critics ask: Why and what now?

Casa Apocalyptica is full of salamanders, birds, dragonflies and koi amid native plants and soothing water features.

Habitat gardens need more than native California plants. They need water for pollinators, birds and other animals. Here are tips for adding this water source.

And in a new railroad garden, upcoming attractions include dinosaurs and a miniature Randy’s Donuts.

He killed his Bermuda grass lawn with cardboard and planted plants better suited for California. Six years later, his DIY yard is thriving.

It’s sweaty, stinky time again at the Huntington Library, Art Gallery, and Botanic Gardens, where the season’s first rare corpse flower bloom is expected by July 23.

Jules Dervaes Jr. wanted a simpler life when he turned the yard around his city home into the organic Urban Homestead his children still farm 50 years later.

Which Southern California native plants survived climate change and mass extinctions 13,000 years ago and still live today? La Brea Tar Pits researchers compiled a list.