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This route, shorter than the PCH, takes you through prime wildflower territory, wine country, and coastline for one of the best CA road trips.

Start the new year by giving the gift of life with blood donation to the American Red Cross.

Start the new year by giving the gift of life with blood donation to the American Red Cross.

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Native plants are vital to the health of the local ecosystem, particularly during a time of climate change, hotter weather, and droughts. KCRW tours the Theodore Payne Foundation to learn about the power of native plants and how to grow them yourself.

Native plants aren't just for habitat. Eagle Rock Brewery has made a new Helles-style lager called Local Source flavored with three California native plants: woolly bluecurls, California laurel and black sage. Sample them June 13 at the brewery.

A young mum claims her beloved pet dog Ava died after being turned away from a local vet because they were too busy. Eloise and Evan Meyer, from the south coast of New South Wales, said their 11-year-old German Shepherd cross Rottweiler was her normal happy self before her health suddenly took a turn for the worse on April 21. Ava was running around playing with my other dog, but by the afternoon my 7-year-old son found her laying down having trouble breathing, and with a white tongue, Ms Meye...

Butterfly fans, take a breath. I know it’s officially spring and we’re all pounding on nursery doors, anxious to plant some California native milkweed to help the endangered Western monarch butterfly stay afloat since, yes, milkweed is the only thing its caterpillars will eat and nonnative varieties appear to be hastening its demise. But here’s the thing: native milkweeds are still slowly coming back to life. Native milkweeds — especially narrow-leaf milkweed, the most prominent vari...

By Mary Forgione California’s deserts can be magical during wildflower season. This probably isn’t one of those years, and it has nothing to do with our pandemic cancel culture. The traffic-stopping orange poppies from Lake Elsinore to the Antelope Valley likely will be no-shows because the fall-winter season has been drier than usual. “Nothing is blooming at all,” Death Valley National Park spokeswoman Abby Wines said in an email. “Usually, bloom on the valley floor is mid-February t...

Print Native plants are the new darlings of the landscaping world, which is shifting its focus from ornamentals to building habitat to help hummingbirds, butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinators find the food they need to survive. But — news flash!—you don’t need a yard or vast tracts of land to promote biodiversity. Pollinators are more than happy to dine on native plants growing in pots on balconies or patios. For the record: 11:25 AM, Feb. 04, 2021 An earlier version of th...