Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pulling weeds is a regular task for Bruce Schwartz in his native garden, which is more about creating habitat than traditional ...

Declining native species could be planted in urban green spaces. Researchers now describe how to use this great potential for species protection. They recommend practical conservation gardening ...

The Habitat Patch Program guides City of Trees residents who want their yards to be habitats where birds and insects thrive.

Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. In this series, we spotlight yards with alternative, low-water landscaping built for the future. When Aurora Anaya bought her little Art Deco house ...

There's a lot of buzz (ha) around native plants these days, largely because research has shown that they're incredibly important for pollinators, including bees. As a bonus to humans, native plants ...

"It's functioning like an ecosystem instead of a monoculture." ...

“Native plants have survived over thousands of years in different climates, through floods, high and low fluctuations in temperature, insects and drought,” said George Oxford Miller, environmental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don't need an acre of land to enrich the environment, says Christopher Smee of his Glendale front yard, which is filled with ...

Struggling with your Wilmington garden? These five native plants are heat tolerant and perfect for coastal soil.

So you’ve torn out your lawn and created a native plant garden to conserve water and restore habitat for struggling birds and insects. But summer is approaching, many of your beautiful plants are ...

Declining native species could be planted in urban green spaces. Researchers from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), ...

Aurora Anaya dove headlong into California native plants for her home in Whittier. A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and endangered monarch butterflies. Water-hungry lawns are symbols of Los ...