Consider growing this herb—indoors or outdoors—if you love gardening and cooking.

Native to Mediterranean regions, the bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) is a well-known culinary herb. Also known as bay leaf plant, it's a tree or shrub that grows outdoors in warm, humid climates or ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... January is a highly beneficial time to prune trees and shrubs because this is the dormant period for many plants in coastal California. This column provides ...

In the past, I have written about how to properly prune trees. To add a little bit of interest, I thought perhaps it would be beneficial to show examples of poor pruning and the reasons why these ...