At these L.A. cafes, you can immerse yourself in plants, from the exotic to the familiar, while savoring a diverse range of caffeinated beverages.

Seamus Blackley is best known for creating the Xbox game console. Now he wants to build a chocolate factory. One problem: Cacao trees don’t naturally grow in Los Angeles.

The community-oriented plant store was evicted from its West Adams location, but its owners found a more welcoming home in Leimert Park.

March is prime time for SoCal gardeners who love to grow tomatoes, with three specialty growers having pop-up sales of hard-to-find tomato varieties.

Carlsbad’s colorful ranunculus fields, neighbored by various visitor attractions including a new butterfly experience, open March 1.

Hawthorne Nursery, one of the last Japanese American-owned plant nurseries established before World War II in Los Angeles, will close at the end of February.

Are you growing food, flowers and other plants on a patio, balcony or deck? Tell us about your small-space container garden so we can share what you’ve learned.

Ash from urban wildfires is potentially full of heavy metals and other toxins. Here’s a guide for what to do if ash is covering your soil, plants and veggies.

Why are there water advisories related to neighborhoods burned by the Palisades and Eaton fire? Here’s a guide to understanding the toxic world of urban wildfires and contaminated water.

Somehow the Eaton fire spared thousands of camellias and azaleas at 90-year-old Nuccio’s Nurseries. Now they desperately need water to stay alive.

Here are plants and flowers to enjoy, one for every month of the year, from lilacs, camellias and poinsettias to native buckwheat, wildflowers and toyon.

Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane is a beloved, low-tech holiday event featuring lights strung over 135 massive deodar cedars — all thanks to volunteers.