Steve Blackwell, conservation collections manager at Desert Botanical Garden, and his team found themselves stumped by a ...

Flowering shrubs are a great anchor for your landscaping, providing a backdrop for smaller, showy plants in the front—and ...

A new study finds that the Sonoran Desert’s iconic cactuses are suffering, not only from prolonged drought but also from ...

The desert has a secret: it’s not just a place of silence and sand, but a living, breathing tapestry of color and life—if you ...

And that’s how we found ourselves sitting in Linda’s Adirondack chairs, eating the most delicious lunch with the most ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

Under a sun that scorches the land and in the heart of a landscape many would call unyielding, the Warlpiri people have ...

Native desert plants are common in landscaping across Arizona to use less water, a practice called xeriscaping. “Science now is coming up to par with Indigenous knowledge,” Lazos-Ferns.

Researchers are concerned the declines will lessen the scale of and in some cases possibly eliminate the large saguaro forests in Arizona.

Weed warriors have unleashed a new weapon in the battle against buffelgrass on “A” Mountain: a herd of hungry sheep. Under a ...

As official research positions are lost to budget cuts, the work of citizen scientists to preserve federal forests is ...

Texas gardeners have always counted on lantanas to tolerate the heat. Few plants hold up to the scorching rays as well — none ...