The classic California poppy, is a substantial plant and can overwhelm and smother small perennials, he said. Depending on ...

Purple needlegrass is a popular native grass for small gardens or open meadows, but its long prickly awns can be a nuisance ...

Is it even possible to have too many kinds of flowers in your garden? If you live in California, or even most of the rest of the United States, here's another.

For Southern California, “winter showers bring spring flowers ... It also prevents the flower from spreading its seeds. So picking one poppy can prevent hundreds of future poppies from growing.

Visitors have converged on Lancaster, California, to see the first such superbloom in four years. But to the dismay of officials, the poppies have not blossomed in the state park poppy reserve.