It’s a sea of gold,” he says. After 10 days of blooming, the petals will start to droop and then break off, and the seeds ...

HOHHOT — At 57, Wang Fei is hailed as the "King of Sunflower Seeds" in his hometown of Bayannuur, in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.

Eventually, the team hopes for a return of these stars to Monterey Bay, where they can help maintain kelp forests, which are declining at a fast pace.

Hawthorne Nursery, one of the last Japanese American-owned plant nurseries established before World War II in Los Angeles, ...