Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

The Sticky-Sweet Odor of citrus blossoms is wafting on the spring breezes this year, as it has in every year since the 1870s, when the county’s first commercially planted orange and lemon groves began ...

Welcome to our gardening adventure. Let’s grow it together! The bright-eyed monkey flower (genus Mimulus, but for this column, we will use its common name, monkey flower) is aptly named for its cute ...