Honey bees and their wild cousins are having hard times lately. See how you can help them all out by making your garden more bee-friendly, whether you have a cottage garden or vegetable garden, or even a drought-tolerant native plant garden.

You can grow healthy roses with high-quality blooms with little to no use of toxic materials, and this guide will show you how! You'll learn how to identify problems, take action when appropriate, and recognize beneficial insects.

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter cacti bloom from late fall through spring, providing vibrant color at a time of year when few other houseplants look their best. Learn how to make your holiday cacti thrive!

The hoplia beetle is a common pest of roses and other plants in many parts of California, especially the Central Valley. It is a problem from late March to May when the adult beetles feed on light-colored blossoms.

Through careful selection of plant varieties and management of environmental conditions with proper cultural practices, beautiful roses can be grown with a minimum of pest problems.

A variety of pathogens may attack roses including powdery mildew, rust, and black spot. In addition, roses may display similar symptoms from abiotic disorders that are the result of chemical toxicities, mineral deficiencies, or environmental problems.

While insects and mites may attack roses from time to time, many rose enthusiasts are able to maintain vigorous plants and produce high quality blooms with little or no use of insecticides, especially in California's dry interior valleys.

Learn to identify and control this common mite pest of plumeria (also called frangipani or lei flower), an increasingly popular ornamental in California gardens.