Grow flame-orange California poppy flowers to light up your garden. These flowers will love the sunniest spots in your yard.

• California’s official state flower, the California poppy (Eschscholzia californica), is celebrated every year on April 6, California Poppy Day. • The California poppy has been the state’s official ...

Poppies are among the easiest plants to grow from seed. You scatter their seeds over the surface of the earth and let them sprout. This assumes, of course, that there will be a modicum of rain after ...

Palms and apartments against a blue sky in southern California. - Brandon Rosenblum/Getty Images California has a reputation as the land of endless sunshine and palm trees, but anyone who has lived ...

One of the perpetual horticultural quests is for repeat bloomers. We extol hybrid tea, shrub, and floribunda roses for their floriferous status in this regard, but there are other plants that exhibit ...

When I first planted my backyard, my husband called my garden Death Row. I wanted to grow flowers and vegetables as my grandmothers had done and trees as my mother had done, but my efforts fell under ...