So planting fever has grabbed you, and you're heading out to your favorite nursery or thumbing through a catalog to see what's available in shrubs. Decisions, decisions. Should your shrubs offer tasty ...

Q: We purchased property and were told by the elderly gentleman that all the berry bushes he planted were edible, but he couldn’t remember the name of the shrub in the photo. I thought it might be ...

Wild Edible Plants: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Free, but space is limited, register at http://sccd.org/plants2eat. Backyard Conservation Stewardship: 5-7:30 p.m. Mondays ...

Early August is a time of heat, and the beginning of garden harvests and berries in the woods. Most of us associate the word "berry" with eating; though many wild ones are delicious and free for the ...

You can have it all when you welcome California native plants into your home garden. Native plants encourage habitat gardening, use less water and don’t need pesticides or much fertilization. I do not ...

Beautyberry shrubs delight on many levels, with low-maintenance care, wildlife appeal and colorful fall foliage. (Rick Wetherbee) Berried trees and shrubs delight on many levels, including tasty, ...

Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries. We all think we have a pretty good idea of what a berry is. We love berries with our dessert or in our French toast. But what we may not know is ...

Before there were shops, online deliveries, and endless preservatives, our ancestors lived off the land — and some of them knew a lot about their native plants, because they had to know what was safe ...