I see your eyebrows arching ... lilacs? In Southern California? Well, yes, and I don't just mean the native ceanothus shrubs, a.k.a. California lilacs, that start coloring (and perfuming ...

Photo courtesy of California Bureau of Land Management/Flickr After several wet winters in a row followed by springs of ...

But in Southern California, shrubs and other perennial native plants such as monkey flowers, phlox, sages, buckwheats and manzanitas will start blooming beautifully in our wild places, Becker said.

Just because poppies won’t blanket our hills like in previous years, doesn’t mean there won’t be beautiful flowers to admire ...

California State Parks around Southern California have not experienced the delicate mix of weather factors needed for ...

There’s more to the California wildflower blooms than meets the human eye, experts say. NASA’s Caltech Jet Propulsion ...

Fruit. Although kiwi vines generally need a colder winter than Southern California’s in order to flower and fruit, the Fuzzy ...

Visit the 15-acre grounds at the former estate of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, including nine acres of desert ...