Today’s column is about a California native shrub that widely available and a fine addition to the garden. The plant is the Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus, or Diplacus aurantiacus). Its ...

Sometimes we fall into the trap of thinking that California native plants are less colorful and interesting than the great many nonnative options. The genus that proves conclusively that natives can ...

If you could plant nothing but monkey flowers, you would have a garden full of kaleidoscopic color all spring and summer long. Red, yellow, orange, pink, magenta, violet, white, and combinations of ...

Creamy Yellow Monkey Flower (Diplacus aurantiacus) This evergreen shrub grows 4-5 feet tall and 5 feet wide. Because the leaves produce a protective sticky resin, the plant is sometimes called Sticky ...

A new species of monkey flower has been found in Scotland, the product of a tryst between two foreign flowers. But this is no ordinary love child. While almost all such hybrids are sterile — just as ...

In 1986, Karen Laing and her new husband moved to a Scotts Valley home set above a big sunny slope. Her only gardening experience to that point had been with vegetables. She had no idea what to do. By ...

The environment affects the way genetic populations move, and similar environments likely play a bigger role in how a species develops than does geographic distance. These are two of the discoveries ...

A new species of monkey flower has been found in Scotland, the product of a tryst between two foreign flowers. But this is no ordinary love child. While almost all such hybrids are sterile — just as ...