Nature is filled with remarkable visual phenomena created by microscopic surface structures that interact with light in ...

Ice plants, belonging to the Delosperma and Lampranthus genera, are perennial plants known for their bright and colorful flowers. This name comes from the tiny hairs on their leaves and stems, giving ...

If you live in California, beds of ice plant are so common you'd be forgiven for thinking it's a native species. In reality, ice plant (Carpobrutus edulis), a species widely grown throughout the state ...

With its dainty flowers in bright hues of pink, red, orange, purple, lavender, yellow, or white and lush greenery, the trailing ice plant (Delosperma) is one ground cover you should plant in late ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Ice plant has taken over large sections of ...

Plant names have always been fascinating to me for a number of reasons. When I first started studying them, it always seemed easier for me to remember the more outlandish botanical names than the ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. The restoration project for Lampton Cliffs ...