Anyone in Los Angeles can create a beautiful wildflower meadow and you can start just in time for a spring bloom. That’s the mission of Altadena Maid, a one-person crusade for restoring pollinators ...

So here's the truth about California native plant landscapes: Without careful planning, they can get a little drab, especially in the summer when many go dormant, brittle and brown. In climates where ...

To the editor: From my experience in designing and planting two gardens with California native plants, I can attest to the positive impact a native plant garden has on the local pollinators as well as ...

The Riverside-San Bernardino Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will offer a tour of eight gardens full of California native plants in spring bloom on March 29. The Spring Native Garden ...

Gardening involves a short list of objectives: landscape beauty, drought tolerance, fire resistance (for vulnerable areas), and the enjoyment of gardening. Today’s column focuses on the benefits of ...

Apart from managed honey bees, there is increasing evidence that some wild bee species have experienced regional declines in North America. These include Bombus affinis, the Rusty Patched Bumble Bee, ...

In 2007, the United States Senate unanimously approved a resolution designating a week in June as National Pollinator Week — this year it is June 23-29. In response to the alarm raised by an annual ...

One of the major challenges faced by pollinators is that much of their habitat has been co-opted for human use. Usually, it’s altered in ways that make it inhospitable for pollinators as well as other ...

The majority of the earth’s plant species, including our crop plants, rely on the services of animal pollinators in order to reproduce. Honey bees and other pollinating insects annually contribute ...