Tom Henschel is the voice behind the Wild Flower HotlineTom Henschel is the voice behind the Wild Flower Hotline
In his day-to-day life, Tom Henschel works as an executive coach, helping people with their leadership in the workplace. But when he’s off the clock, Henschel takes up a unique hobby. Henschel narrates the Wild Flower Hotline for the Theodore Payne Foundation.
54 Native Plants added to parkway gardens
Fifty-four California native plants were added to the Tule River Parkway Demonstration Gardens this past weekend. Plants were added at Gardens 12, 26, and 29 added plants. Garden 12 is adopted by a family, garden 26 by a group of middle school cadets under Sargent Hafen, and garden 29 by the Porterville College science department.
Get ideas for your home garden at these 19 spring garden tours around L.A.
Southern California, especially Los Angeles, has many breathtaking botanical gardens and wildflower-lined hiking trails. But it’s also exciting to visit private home gardens that are rarely open to the public and find inspiration even if you don’t have space for a garden at home.
How Paradise Hills residents turned a former landfill into a native garden
Over the past five years, a five-acre native garden has been slowly blossoming.
The Native Seed Farm Safeguarding California’s Future
At Heritage Growers, every acre is being cultivated to repair ecosystems and help the Golden State meet its ambitious conservation goals.
How Does A Community Garden Grow?
Gardening is often thought of as a solo undertaking, working by oneself, planting, tilling, raking, deadheading flowers, yet eight years ago, UC Master Gardeners of Yolo County were instrumental in creating The Winters Community Library Teaching Garden
Bodega Bay: The art of gardening at the coast
Come explore what makes our local landscape unique and get to know the plants that thrive here.
County opens Eaton Canyon Landscape Recovery Center
The new Landscape Recovery Center in Eaton Canyon opened over the weekend, which officials said marks a major milestone in restoring parks and natural habitats impacted by the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.
Conference on protecting California’s native plants and their habitat held in Riverside
Botanists and plant enthusiasts from around the state converged on Riverside to celebrate native plants and share their expertise with one another.
Mustards are invading California! And no its not bottles of Heinz
This picture of lush yellow flowers filling up a field doesn’t seem to have much wrong with it at first glance, after all, it’s common for plants to sprout after heavy rainfall.
However, the flowers in this photo are an invasive species called mustards. While they are pretty, they do heavy damage to the native ecosystem here in California.