Contributor: My last garden
Someday we will leave this house where we’ve lived, incredibly, for close to 45 years. Maybe a new McMansion will push us away, looming over us and blocking the winter ...
Tag: Plants
The Squirting Cucumber Can Launch Its Seeds 40 Feet and 30 MPH
One of nature’s most inherently hypersexual plants, Ecballium elaterium, better known as the squirting cucumber, weaponizes its reproductive system. It turns itself into a T-shirt canon of seeds, NPR reports. ...
The world’s largest wildlife crossing is entering Stage 2: What’s that mean for traffic?
When you’re trying to build a mountain over one of the country’s busiest freeways, it’s easy to be envious of original creation stories, when natural spaces were formed with just ...
Gardeners on ICE raids: ‘People are afraid, but they still have to work’
They’re known as the “mow and blow” guys — the legion of predominately Latino gardeners driving pickup trucks and trailers bristling with lawn mowers, weed whackers and other yard-care equipment ...
With Barbra Streisand and Oprah as clients, this gardener has a simple goal: perfection
Dan Bifano is in a hurry, but it’s in his nature to be gracious, so he keeps his countenance serene even though gnarly traffic on the Pacific Coast Highway has ...
Polluted soil is all over L.A. Here’s how to fix it, even if your home didn’t burn
Angelenos are understandably worried about the toxins deposited by smoke and ash from the Eaton and Palisades urban wildfires in January, but after L.A. Times Plants tested soil around eight ...
Contributor: Inspiration from the species that can live 1,000 years and put down a new set of roots anytime
For a Yankee in the South, everything about the environment scares you off. Heat. Humidity. Flying termite season (seriously, it’s a thing). But this cold-and-snow-loving Northerner braved the bugs recently, ...
Immerse yourself in native plants at the L.A. Times Plants booth at Festival of Books
Want to learn more about California native plants? Take a deep dive with experts from the Theodore Payne Foundation and California Native Plant Society April 26-27 at the L.A. Times ...
How one woman is doggedly transforming a trash patch into a fragrant habitat garden
Some people see trash and weeds and walk on by. Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs. And some, like environmental scientist ...
Bountiful veggies or fragrant native plants? Here’s how to get a dreamy yard with both
Here’s the dilemma: Fruits and vegetables are among the neediest of flora because they require lots of nutrients and water to produce the delicious, healthful foods we love to eat. ...
