Two century-old trees in front of the La Jolla hotel were removed in February, but their replacements are now installed ...

Before palm trees and Hollywood, travelers crossed into Needles—Route 66’s first taste of California. With historic motels, ...

All of that means tumbleweeds have long been a threat in places like the Portal Ridge Wildlife Preserve, 3,000 acres of ...

Their approach—combining respect for natural desert beauty with sophisticated design sensibilities—established principles that continue to influence landscape architects working in arid environments ...

Palm trees are hardly alien to this hemisphere. Hernán Cortés, the Spanish conquistador who blasted his way through Aztec Mexico, complained about them in a 1525 letter to his master, the Holy ...

The red palm weevil is threatening many trees in Southern California. A 2022 report by the BBC claimed just over 50% of all the palms in the world are threatened with extinction. Totally ‘nuts’ ...

The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees.Rooted in the beds of dry washes throughout Anza-Borrego’s lower valleys, both plants ...

California is famously home to the oldest, tallest and largest trees in the world. Three national parks there are named for trees, as well as several cities, including Oakland and Palm Springs.

A sprawling Southern California desert pad, decked out by a Gucci heiress, is up for grabs — if you’ve got $28,000 a month to spare. Tucked away in Palm Desert, roughly 25 miles south of Palm ...