Gardening in desert conditions can be challenging, but it's also incredibly rewarding! The key to success lies in selecting plants that are well-adapted to hot, arid climates and low water ...

While all of these plants are able to grow quickly in the desert, they still need some amount of water to survive. In times of drought, many of these plants will go dormant, losing their leaves ...

Maureen Gilmer, author of “Growing Vegetables in Drought, Desert and Dry Times” (Sasquatch Books, 2015), noted that potting soil is full of porous ingredients such as perlite, those white ...

Whether you are trying to grow a fern in your living room or cultivate an entire garden in your backyard, being a plant ...

The Saguaro Cactus in the Desert. The saguaro cactus is one of the most iconic plants of the American Southwest and can grow to be over 50 feet tall and live for hundreds of years. They are native ...

These plants are short-lived in the desert. Hearts and flowers are succulents and not as tough in full sun as many cactuses. They grow best in the cooler months of spring and fall.

Here are the plants you'll want to grow after the summer solstice on June 20 until the Fall equinox on Sept. 22, along with tips to keep them alive amid dry temperatures. Summer growing tips ...

With summer temperatures and water rates on the rise in Southern California, gardeners can learn from desert farmers how to grow food with little water and lots of heat.

High Desert native, professor and high school biology teacher Audrey Longshore is on a mission to connect students with the beauty and importance of native plants of the High Desert.

Plants that grow without soil, like tillandsias, some bromeliads and many orchids are called epiphytes. Hummingbirds pollinate the long tubular flowers while there is not much else in the natural ...

In 1982, Larry Venable, an ecologist at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, began a study at The Desert Laboratory on nearby Tumamoc Hill in order to investigate adaptive "bet-hedging" in ...