Growing Gardeners
Dig into our online garden classroom featuring urban gardening advice, fun projects for kids, and recipes straight from the garden.
Learn to foster a garden that supports your community and local ecology.
Native Plant Fun Facts: The Charismatic Cow Parsnip
This week’s featured California native plant is the cow parsnip (Heracleum maximum). It not only grows in California, but in most of the United States, and is the only plant in the genus Heracleum native to North America.
Native Plant Fun Facts: The Beautiful, Mighty Ceanothus!
GFE is excited to begin a new Native Plant Fun Facts feature every Monday. Our first featured plant is the beautiful, hardy Ceanothus (aka Soapbloom or California Lilac, although it’s not a true Lilac).
