Mike Esparza took a boring lawn and created an English gentlemen's garden around his Long Beach home. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) It's been a tough two years for garden voyeurs. The spring ...

Even in early spring, Lori Basheda's cottage garden in Long Beach is flush with old-fashioned fragrant blooms, such as this trellis of sweet peas. By May, when the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour ...

In 1995, when most people considered native plants little more than weeds (if they considered them at all), desert devotee Mike Letteriello peered through a chain-link fence at a patch of bare ground ...

Avid gardeners always enjoy ways to celebrate gardening, whether it is visiting local nurseries, hanging out in the home improvement store's garden center, or visiting public gardens. And while there ...