Early in April, I was looking for the first of the spring flowers in the mountains and had found pasque flowers and, to my surprise, mountain ball cactus in bloom at Meyers Gulch, near Walker Ranch.

Honeybees gathering myrtle rust spores as food could be helping spread the fungal disease killing native trees, University of ...

Q I planted a Vinca major last year under a hawthorn tree and it has grown quite well. But this year it is covered in a reddish rust and the leaves are all curled. Is it treatable or fatal? It looks ...