Are you a root beer fan? I love a good root beer float with vanilla ice cream and diet root beer (Is that cheating?). I adore the foam. Did you know that the foam in Shasta root beer that forms when ...

Brian Kemble is curator at the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek. His monthly column focuses on drought tolerant plants and dry gardens. Different species of yuccas are part of the native flora in ...

The flower of the soapweed yucca (Yucca glauca) is a simple affair. Three milky white petals enclose six stamens splayed around one fleshy green pistil. But when the sun goes down, this basic bloom ...

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