Gardening for food includes growing vegetables such as tomatoes, summer squash and eggplant that you plant in the spring to eat in the summer. I’m now also eating crops I
Hollyhock buds start to appear in spring with flowers blooming by midsummer. Hollyhocks are biennials, which means that the plant will not produce flowers until the second year after it
California native plants are those that are indigenous to our region. They have evolved to thrive in our climate and have not been hybridized with non-native plants.
California native plants are those that are indigenous to our region. They have evolved to thrive in our climate and have not been hybridized with non-native plants. They were here
Echium can reach 10 feet tall. The ones in Loretta’s yard were Echium wildpretii, also called “Tower of Jewels.” Their surface looked embroidered, and they were covered with bees. (Beekeepers