Toyon is a common tree in the hills around the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys and in the Angeles National Forest to the north. It’s found throughout the California chaparral regions. The leaves ...

Toyon, or “Christmas-berry,” one of the more distinctive shrubs of Southern California’s native chaparral plant community, is now flaunting clusters of red berries. Here in coastal San Diego, toyon ...

It is a wonderful thing when plants are able to decorate themselves for the holidays, with bright red berries against deep green foliage. This is one of the appealing features of the Toyon, a ...

This is a great year for toyon berries. Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia, is our California native holly. So convincing is its impersonation - at least by the standards of early European immigrants here ...

Volunteers are needed to plant 250 trees from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Oct. 27 at Toyon Park, 945 S. Weir Canyon Rd. The event is part of the Great Clean Air Tree Planting Project, which aims to ...

This past week, my dear friend Bob and I went to Griffith Park in search of a little bit of holiday magic in the hillsides. We were looking for bright red toyon. In the fall and winter, toyons produce ...

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to name the native, drought-tolerant toyon plant as the city’s official plant. The toyon – its formal name is Heteromeles arbutifoila – is a ...

As wildfires burned a few miles southeast, more than 200 volunteers gathered in Anaheim Hills to plant 160 trees in Toyon Park. Volunteers planted jacaranda, Chinese tallow, red bud, silk oak, orchid, ...

This windbreak features a toyon tree, a redbud bush and native grasses. (Photo by Pamela Noemsie) Western redbud can be used to make a windbreak. (Photo by Pamela Noensie) Toyon is a great option for ...

Note: This is the second in a three-part series on native plants that have proven successful on the author’s property along the Lindo Channel in Chico. The previous article discussed large trees; the ...