Tourists ready to go beyond classic California spots are spoiled for choice, faced with a never-ending list of amazing locales. These are the best of the best.

Mullkey decided to one-up her Michael Jackson look from a Sweet 16 matchup against NC State with the trifecta: purple, sequins and flowers ― large ones. Excuse me, Big Mulk. I wasn't familiar ...

Originally light pink or pale orange in hue, the colors of the carnation have expanded to include red, purple ... noted in the name. The tree and shrub flowering plant is said to symbolize ...

Established in 1911, the club originated with just 20 women who planted thousands of mesquite trees in the arid landscape of early Las Vegas. That was the same year the city was incorporated into ...

A 3-year-old giraffe named Msituni jumped her enclosure to get a nibble of a nearby mesquite tree. Reid Park Zoo A giraffe at the Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, decided to familiarize herself w ...

One of my favourite trees I always look forward to seeing in our early springtime and watch burst into red flowers before the leaves appear, is the Cercis tree, commonly known as the ‘Judas tree ...

Together with the oceans, they are one of the two most important carbon sinks, due to their capacity to store carbon in the soil and in tree biomass. As such, promoting fast-growing trees could ...

It was a year when fire seemed to engulf the continent. Flames surged through the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Southwest, the ponderosa pine stands of the Rocky Mountains, the mixed conifer ...

Thanks to the Japanese passion for flowering cherry trees and the breeding that's been carried out there, we now have a huge choice of these spring-flowering favourites, which are often scented and ...