The cactus, palms and succulents anchoring yards around the desert can successfully be planted in the heat, but don't wait.

White flowering shrubs help to accentuate the other flower colors in your garden. A white shrub will also keep your landscape ...

The Blooming Of Desert Annuals Is Over, but not that of the region's stolid desert willows and smoke trees. Rooted in the ...

The Sonoran Desert is the most biodiverse desert in the world. It’s home to plants and animals that cannot be found anywhere ...

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

Jeremy B. Yoder, a Lancaster Mennonite High School graduate, is an associate professor of biology at California State ...

In my work as a professional gardener, flowering shrubs are a mainstay of landscaping design. They can provide not only beauty but privacy, shade, and wildlife habitat, and many of them also attract ...

Unfortunately, even the prettiest plants can have hidden downsides. Sometimes, a lovely flowering shrub is actually highly invasive or attracts unwanted pests to your yard. Many people enjoy gardening ...

She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from ...