Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Blog

Botany is addictive.  As a kid growing up near the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, I took numerous summer camping tr...

Astragalus tricarinatus on a cliff face near Mission Creek  This coming spring the Conservation Program has an exciting new project th...

In my mind, the sunflower may be the most iconic American plant. It’s a plant of summer, a plant of fall, a plant chewed on the ball f...

Deidre collecting Joshua tree ( Yucca brevifolia ) seeds north of Barstow, August 2013 Hello, my name is Deidre and I started working...

This article written by Lucinda McDade was originally posted in Oak Notes, the newsletter of the Volunteers of RSABG. Because it answers que...