Aeoniums are easy-care perennial succulent plants that are gaining in popularity because they offer striking foliage that brightens winter gardens at a time when many plants are dormant. Most of the ...

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. Let’s consider one of the winter growers: ...

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 ...

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: We planted a tall-growing aloe in our garden ...

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 ...

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 ...

All gardens occasionally benefit from a substantial work-over. In today’s column, I describe such a project in my garden. In brief, the project basically involves exchanging two groups of plants.

Aeonium is a fascinating and beautiful genus of plants that most gardeners in the Southeast have never heard of. Thirty species are native to numerous islands northwest of the African continent, ...