Every spring, I get giddy at the first sight of color that isn’t the white or brown of mud season. I know that each year, the abundance and beauty of wildflowers in this region will continuously ...

The UC Master Gardeners of Butte County are part of the University of California Cooperative Extension system, serving our ...

Garden borders bursting with colour can still stay eerily quiet, with no hummingbirds in sight. This electric blue penstemon ...

Among the best groups of flowering perennials for desert landscapes are the spring-flowering penstemons. Penstemons are native throughout North America. Although the number of species is greatest for ...

A gardening expert urged gardeners to take care of their perennial plants to stop them from growing wild and unruly.

I can find green in my native flower gardens all year — I have some small evergreen shrubs and perennials with basal leaves that stay green, like Rocky Mountain penstemon. It would certainly be ...