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 ...

Transform your dry landscape into a thriving oasis. Drought-tolerant shrubs, such as brittlebush, jojoba, or ninebark, bring ...

While studying plant identification in college, the hardest to learn were the "miscellaneous green shrubs." For example, Xylosma is identical to Ficus to the untrained eye as both have the same sized ...

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 ...

The healthiest Texas sage I ever saw was a large specimen that, seemingly by a miracle, was blooming adjacent to a freeway ...

"That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people'." This is how George Harrison explained the origins of the ubiquitous and iconic daisy that defined ...

I love Adenium Desert Rose. These tropical plants have a unique structure generating intriguing caudex trunks and blooming ...

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both California and Arizona was receiving ...

I left in the dark and pulled into the quiet, vacant parking lot at the trail head. For just a moment, I stopped wrestling with my gear and camera and just stood in the perfect silence among the ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...