Sunlight paints the land in gold, and resilient blooms rise through the heat with effortless grace. Each petal seems to ...

If spring wildflowers were people, they’d be a carefree lot, free spirits who don’t set their alarm clocks and never check email. They’d toss their colorful heads with a mischievous ...

Something magical is happening in the barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile, considered the driest place on our planet with annual precipitation that can only be measured at a fraction of an ...

SPRINGTIME=FLOWERS, it is generally accepted and understood, and with fine reason, too: Buds have a way of bursting when March bows to April and April greets May at the door. Thank the warming ...

"I want to keep bees." she said. "What plants should I grow for them here? This simple question is challenging in the desert because it's hard to grow traditional "pollinator" flowers in our climate.

Scientists discovered how to study cactus movement without harm - by measuring the silent sway of these desert giants using ...

They are fountains of flaming red blossoms 20 feet tall. People in Los Angeles want ocotillos, but Fouqueria splendens doesn't like the coast. Here in the desert, these water-loving plants from ...

How many times do we say or hear, “But, it’s a dry heat?” Now that we are in the ‘hot spell’ of the desert valley, albeit for the next four months, we still want our landscape pots filled with flowers ...

EVERY CACTUS IS A POEM, and we don't simply mean the beautiful and ethereal names that have been bestowed upon so many of these sometimes prickly and always ravishing plants. The earthy hues, the ...