Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...

As gardeners, we are drawn to the latest, brightest varieties of thirsty, exotic species for our gardens, always chasing the new and unusual. As our world heats up with climate change, water-thirsty ...

Long before the buildings and boulevards, before people inhabited the great basin that became known as Los Angeles, there were plants and fire. For the native flora here in California, fire is an ...

The summer of 2024 was California’s hottest on record. Did you struggle to keep your plants adequately watered? Did your water bills skyrocket? Did some plants die even with increased irrigation? Are ...

Native landscaping is part of a popular trend relating to outdoor environments in which the installed landscape is indigenous or native to a particular geographic environment or region. What this ...

Chuckwalla National Monument is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and its namesake lizard. One of America’s newest protected public lands is a ...