Debbie Arrington

Dr. Norman Klein blends in – comfortably in this image but not always so – with his cactus garden at his home in Rancho Cordova. "Once you start, it's truly an addiction – you can't get enough," he said. "I got hooked – litera...

Flower artist-author, Debra PrinzingDebra Prinzing has a message for Mother's Day: Go slow. The mother of the "Slow Flower" movement, Prinzing is making a personal crusade to encourage people to think about floral purchases the same way they...

Hollywood Park, one of California's oldest and most famous racetracks, will close permanently Dec. 22. Thursday, track owner Hollywood Park Land Co., informed the California Horse Racing Board in Sacramento that it won't seek 2014 racing dates and ...

Todd Pletcher: The trainer says he's in a great position, but five entrants in Saturday's Kentucky Derby don't guarantee victory.Entry into Saturday's Run for the Roses was supposed to come down to points, not purse money. But it still adds up to...

Shelly and Steve Lange of El Dorado Hills and their dog Harvey pose by their soaking pool. Their yard is on the Assistance League garden tour May 4 and 5.At their El Dorado Hills home, Steve and Shelly Lange created a backyard paradise under the ...

Ed Carman's rosemary offers some of the darkest blue flowers in the rosemary family. It's drought-tolerant and evergreen, making it an ideal addition to the Durable Delights collection.Necessity brought change to the landscaping of UC Davis. It a...

Erica Miller Associated Press Northern California trainer Jerry Hollendorfer, 65, is 10 victories away from 6,000.Nobody waltzes on the way to the Kentucky Derby. As fickle as the NCAA's Big Dance, the Derby Trail also is littered with upsets...

Adam Keefer, garden manager and a former chef at the French Laundry in Yountville, snips a leaf of blue oyster-leaf spinach.While visiting France, restaurateur Thomas Keller nibbled a crunchy blue-leafed spinach that he'd never seen before. It ta...

Woodcreek teacher Kendra Grinsell, left, and students Manmeet Bains, Annie Baker, Kenzie Grinsell, Ricky Jones, Andrew Nadeu and Molly Maupin have expanded the school's vermicomposting program dramatically.One year after this unusual student proj...

Ray Eames works on prototypes of "The Toy."In her native Sacramento, Ray Eames still touches our daily lives. In classrooms, restaurants and airport waiting areas (plus countless homes), furniture designed by Eames and her husband, Charles, ...