Beautiful and functional, prickly pears are resilient cacti that are perfect if you are looking for low-maintenance and ...

It’s a paradox that plants as spiky and homely as cacti produce such spectacular flowers. Prickly-pear, one of the showiest of the cactus family, blooms in the prairies, mesas and foothills of ...

The prickly pear threatened native flora for decades but was only declared a weed when it had become so dense and thickly spread that it posed a problem for landholders. Even these days, conservation ...

Let the ivy trail down the sides of the container. Buy some small red carnations, which last well, and insert the flowers into the foam amongst the greenery. Holly and ivy have been treasured for ...

Despite their prickly stems and finicky reputation ... Rose choices are abundant  in habit, flower form, color and fragrance. Climbing roses will adorn a trellis; a rambler will cover a fence ...

the early bloomers will begin to splash Orange County’s wild hillsides with color. One likely candidate is prickly phlox, a three-foot shrub that explodes with pinkish flowers.

The nectar and pollen provided by ivy’s open flowers are also accessible to all insects. Even insects with shorter tongues can gather ivy nectar. In contrast, plants like lavender secrete nectar ...