High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this ...

Blue fescue (Festuca glauca) is a beautiful ornamental grass known for its striking silvery-blue foliage. Because of its ...

If you want to conserve water and don't relish spending hours every day dousing your plants by hand, a desert garden can be the answer. You can easily select plants that get by on minimal rainfall.

Noelle Johnson, aka AZ Plant Lady, talks about using mulch in her garden while crouching next to one of the rocks that decorate her front garden at her Chandler home on Feb. 20, 2023.

The Desert Botanical Garden, an oasis nestled among the red rocks of Papago Park, turns 86 in February. The idea for a desert garden came from a small group of Valley-based advocates in the 1930s.

That’s one message to be taken from the recently published, “Marfa Garden: A Field Guide to Plants of the Chihuahuan Desert,” (Trinity University Press, $29.95) by Jim Fissel, Jim Martinez ...

The plant, found on desert rocks, belongs to the same family as daisies and has been named Ovicula biradiata. The name "Ovicula" is derived from Latin, meaning "tiny sheep," a nod to the wool-like ...

Native desert plants are common in landscaping across Arizona to use less water, a practice called xeriscaping. More in U.S. Florida man shoots neighbor's cow 5 times after it wandered onto his ...

To learn more about sustainable landscaping options, one local nursery sells plants that withstand the desert’s challenges. Norm Schilling, a horticulturalist and owner of Mojave Bloom ...

With a $750,000 landscaping budget, the Paradise Valley homeowners added earth-tone hardscaping and native plants. With a $750,000 landscaping budget, the Paradise Valley homeowners added earth ...