A funny thing happened on the way to May: I have what looks to be a million tiny yellow flowers. It happens every year for about four to six weeks, but no one talks about it. Some even look away.

Here are the winners for 2026. Year of the Ficus. Ficusses are quite common houseplants. The edible fig is also part of the ...

I got an email this past week from a reader which had a question that I have not seen very often — at least not very often on this plant. The question I got was very strange in that only a part of the ...

Cut sedum back in spring, trim in early summer, and clean up in fall. Skip pruning in mid-summer and winter to avoid stressing the plant. Pruning keeps sedum strong, compact, and blooming well. Sedum ...

Cliff faces and rock-strewn hillsides in Mexico are home to golden sedum (S. adolphi), among the world’s fastest-growing succulents. Up to eight inches tall, plants bear rosettes of fleshy, upturned ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. A while ago, I featured Sedum Harvest Moon (Sedum spathulifoium) as the California native of the week, lamenting that I could not find it in the nursery ...

DENNIS: There are rites of pre-spring I go through every year that tell me my second or third favorite season is just around the corner. This year, we spent part of a rainy February Saturday (is there ...