Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. Q I have a group of beautiful Aeonium plants, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Our previous column introduced a project to exchange two groups of plants to provide better growing conditions: moving aeoniums from the ground to containers ...

Today, we introduce the genus Aeonium, which includes 35 species, most of which are from the Canary Islands, northeast of Africa. These plants are characterized by the development of rosettes of ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... We focused recently on whether to prune trees and shrubs in January or wait until late winter/early spring. This decision is based on the plant’s bloom time.

For example, Aeonium plants have a distinctive protective mechanism: the more CAM photosynthesis occurs in these plants, the more effectively the thin waxy layer on their leaf surfaces, the cuticle, ...

For those of you who are into botanical trivia, see if you can answer the following existential (having to do with life and death) question: What do carrots, radishes, lettuce, agaves, fishtail palms, ...

Aichryson parlatorei at its natural habitat in the upper part of the Barranco del Carrizal, municipality of Guía de Isora, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Apparently, the survival strategies of ...

How do plants adapt to drought and heat? New studies on plants of the Canary Islands show that adaptation is not determined by a single character but by the interaction of entire sets of characters.