Debbie Arrington

Pat Rhine, a founder of Friends of the Jensen Botanical Garden, holds a valuable site resource – a hand-drawn 1982 map.Fall marks a season of change, sometimes bittersweet. It's a time of transition, but also renewal. Summer heat and mem...

Joan Coulat inspects houseplants at Capital Nursery, where she is a buyer. She's also in charge of this weekends begonia show and sale.Joan Coulat, Sacramento's beloved begonia lady, has her hands full this weekend. She's hoping local plant lover...

Students at Woodlake Elementary in Sacramento planted tomatoes, onions and garlic for a salsa garden. Eight plants gave them plenty of tomatoes for chili, spaghetti sauce and salsa.As the maxim goes, all gardening is local. This summer in Sacrame...

Vicka Pearson-Rounds shops at Capital Nursery's store on Freeport Boulevard, which will close soon, leaving two other Capital stores in the region.Sometimes to save a tree, some branches must be sacrificed. Capital Nursery is in the midst of...

Ralph Lauer Associated Press Rookie IndyCar driver Katherine Legge, 32, will be in Dragon Racing's No. 6 car in Sunday's Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma.In the post-Danica Patrick era, IndyCar still has plenty of Girl Power. And a new initiative is int...

Peter Frichette of Sacramento was surprised by this cluster of Goliath tomatoes. More than a dozen tomatoes, weighing at least 3 pounds total, formed this bunch he found recently in his garden.Peter Frichette, Sacramento's Mr. Tomato, thought he...

A pineapple grows in a greenhouse at the California State Fair, where temperature and other conditions are carefully controlled.It's a jungle in there. Next to the Wine Shed at the California State Fair, parrots, macaws and other exotic bird...

Enjoy it while you can. Today, horse racing returns to Cal Expo for the annual State Fair meet. It's a brief flurry of summertime competition before the track goes dark again. After two weeks of thoroughbred action, it will be more than three month...

Mark Lennihan Associated Press I'll Have Another, washed by Ignocenzio Diaz, is the latest thoroughbred sold to Japanese breeders. Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner I'll Have Another is about to become California's latest equine export. ...

The beauty of Big Springs Gardens near Sierra City bridges a gap for many visitors.Painters and photographers are making the long trek up Highway 49 again this summer to capture one perfect moment, maybe more. They set up their easels or trip...