Do you live in the desert or have an area in your garden where the sun just beats down relentlessly, making it hard for your plants to survive? Usually these areas are near a wall, which absorbs the ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native and even tropical plants. Although aesthetically pleasing, these plants, ...

As any experienced San Antonio gardener knows, South Texas summers can be brutal on plants. Following a brief burst of color in spring, the summer heat descends, often accompanied by months of little ...

Our neighboring desert in New Mexico and Texas is a great source of drought-tolerant plants. Chihuahuan Desert plants also tend to do well in cooler climates since much of the Chihuahuan Desert is at ...

As climate change inexorably makes South Texas' summers hotter and drier — and winters more likely to bring deep, extended freezes — homeowners may want to reconsider the types of plants they put in ...

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...

In Argentina’s Neuquén province, local laws require that when oil companies decommission a drilling site in the Monte Desert, they dig furrows across the site to promote plant growth, a form of ...

Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Willow. This week on a special desert plants episode of Arizona Illustrated…how a “nature nerd” turned his passion into ...

Audrey Longshore, a high school biology teacher in Victorville, California, is teaching her students about the importance of native plants. Longshore believes that using native plants in landscaping ...