Almost everyone wants color in the landscape, and flowerbeds play an important role in that. But it takes a lot of work to ...

This flowering shrub boasts dramatic tubular purple flowers that are ideal for drawing hummingbirds and butterflies to your ...

Certain trees, like figs, crape myrtles, calamondins, ginkgos, and Japanese maples, can thrive when planted in pots rather ...

If you want to attract pollinators but struggle with plants dying in the heat, the perennial beardtongue is the perfect ...

Texas lilac, also known as chaste tree (Vitex), is a beautiful specimen with purple flowers that bloom in midsummer, imparting a delightful scent that wafts through gardens in zones 6-9. Old garden ...

The January wildfires burned jacaranda trees from Pasadena and Altadena to the Pacific Palisades. Some are burned at the base but still blooming. Here's when you can expect them to recover.

It was once purple and even pink, as per some scientists. Research has shown that millions of years ago, our planet was dominated by bacteria that reflected red and blue. Earth, the pale blue dot, as ...

More like a shrub than a tree, chaste trees (Vitex agnus-castus) produce gorgeous purple (sometimes white or pink) blooms that put on a show from late spring to fall. " Vitex is a small tree ...