At just this time last year, on a ranch on the rolling eastern fringe of the Central Valley - private land where no surveyor's stakes pierced the ground, no bulldozers had leveled the wetlands - UC ...

Here's something you never thought you'd find in a gardening column: a gratuitous M.C. Escher reference. One look at Crassula corymbulosa 'Red Pagoda' and those of you familiar with "Relativity ...

"If you find Crassula taking over your garden pond and want to get rid of it, please don't dump it. "Put it in a black plastic bag, seal it and leave it for at least six months. Burn it once it is ...