A brouhaha over shrubbery has blossomed here after the company the city hired to handle code enforcement issues cited Mayor Jean Robb’s homeowners association for an overgrown bougainvillea hedge. The ...

All those caterpillars on the bougainvillea are actually bird food, and they are here now to provide necessary protein for nesting chicks. If we all planted just a few native species and stopped using ...

The mystery is solved. For more than two years, drivers have been wondering who shaped bougainvillea bushes into a massive heart on the 101 Freeway in Hollywood — or if they grew that way naturally.

At around 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night, I was perched on a low guardrail on the side of Vine Street looking out over Hollywood at the Capitol Records Building. The entire weight of my upper body was ...