They hoard water, manufacture food at night and con their helpers into working for free. Beneath their celebrated blooms, desert wildflowers are survivalists — plants that vigorously defend their ...

Stop and smell the cactus. Desert wildflowers are in bloom. But don’t wait too long to see them. With sparse rains, many of the flowers already are wilting in low elevation areas such as the canyons ...

Tom Chester is standing in the middle of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, ignoring the majestic scenery. The towering Santa Rosa Mountains, the wide vistas and the clear blue sky are not what interests ...

"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.

Gertrude Jekyll would have loved our desert palette if she hadn't been born in Victorian England. This "mother" of the color-centric English perennial border often utilized soft grays, cool colors and ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...