When you think of lawn weeds, common ones, like crabgrass or spurge weed, first come to mind. however, there is one invasive weed that you're likely unaware of.

Over the years, I’ve shared countless springs and summers with purslane, the so-called weed. Maybe you’ve spotted it too — one of my clients had so many purslane plants, their garden looked like a ...

A garden invader is Purslane. This “weed” is a low growing succulent with a red stem, green tear drops shaped leaves and small yellow flowers. Since it’s invasive, it spreads out like a small rug.

Noticing a weed I have probably seen often but never identified, I took a picture and examined it. Although there are at least five genus of spurge, I recognized the prostrate spurge (Euphorbia ...

Meet the most common botanical interlopers you're likely to find in your garden or vegetable patch, and learn how to treat each.

When Mike and Clarissa Tofel saw their twin daughters playing in some pretty yellow flowers in their yard, they thought nothing of it. They'd moved into the house the previous November, and in the ...

You might be harboring a noxious weed disguised as a pretty plant. Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites), also known as donkey tail spurge, was once planted as a waterwise ornamental plant but has ...

Weeds and weed management are an inescapable aspect of gardening life. In Sonoma County there are 195 different species, a large number of which inhabit our various gardens. Weeds have many faces and ...

There are all kinds of activities involved landscape maintenance. The most burdensome jobs are those that must be done regularly. A good example of this is mowing lawns. But to my mind, the most ...

Weeds are the troublemakers in your garden. There they are, lurking among the flowers, persisting and interfering with your plans for a California native garden or a pollinator paradise. Weeds compete ...