The front yard is a passerby or visitor’s first impression of your home and you. It is also the first thing you see when you ...

Aurora Anaya unexpectedly fell in love with California native plants and vowed to create her own native plant habitat around ...

Santa Barbara county greenthumbs, or aspiring gardeners looking to branch out and explore the hobby, can register now for a ...

Some local gardeners are gravitating toward native plants because they don’t consume as much water and help promote ...

A family's front yard has been turning heads in ... Over the years, the Polays have transformed their lawn into a fruit and vegetable garden. “Why are we wasting this valuable land that we ...

All that work gleaning, collecting seed, seeding green spaces, and changing over the beds in your garden this month will make ...

Among the “performers” is a pale lilac wisteria climbing a trellis that stands along the walkway to the front ... This garden ...

A word-of-mouth bartering system has sprung up at Karl Reamer's backyard farm, with community members swapping labor, plants ...

At this time of year I always get a craving, one that reminds me of growing up on Marguerite Avenue. My family had a set of gardens in the backyard. They were mostly small flower gardens but we had ...

The nonprofit group Wild Ones offers a free library of designs, with plants specific to your area — and you don’t have to be ...