A garden is filled with succulents and cacti. - Amanda Alamsyah/Shutterstock Creating beautiful garden designs isn't just about adding a lot of colorful flowers, it's also about combining different ...

As a decades-long drought persists in Southern California and pressure grows to conserve scarce water resources, more and more people are ridding their gardens of thirsty lawns and water-intensive ...

Book Review Advertisement Article continues below this ad New edition brings new ideas and designs to the landscape Although some Bay Area gardeners loved cactus and other succulents, a decade ago it ...

In recent columns, we focused on switching two groups of species within the same genus: aeonium and mangave. That project raised my interest in ways to group plants in the garden. Landscaping is an ...

Succulents, with their thick fleshy leaves and stems, used to be the neglected stepchild of the Southern California home garden. “People were just more interested in other kinds of plants for their ...

Succulents are a notoriously low-maintenance group of plants that grow well even in arid or other harsh environments-- especially useful in states like California, which have experienced increasing ...

This is the latest in a series we call Plant PPL, where we interview people of color in the plant world. If you have any suggestions for PPL to include in our series, tag us on Instagram ...

Although some Bay Area gardeners loved cactus and other succulents, a decade ago it was rare to see a landscape that used these drought-tolerant plants extensively. More likely they’d be used as an ...