Spring brings color to Arizona’s desert landscape. In May, the season reaches its most iconic display with towering saguaros ...

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 ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

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 ...

Plentiful winter rains followed by a mild start to spring is resulting in what naturalists call a "superbloom" throughout Southern California's desert landscapes. Wildflower enthusiasts can't get ...

California's wildflower superbloom gives Coachella a run for its money as the most popular seasonal event in the desert. Bright orange, salmon, crimson, and yellow flowers fulminate over the arid ...

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 ...