RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It’s that time of the year when countless colorful cactus blooms cover South Texas wildlands from coastal prairie to arid brush country. More species of ...

April can be an especially colorful time in the desert, as many of our native cacti unfurl their short-lived but spectacular flowers during these few weeks. Among the very showiest are the hedgehog ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, pumpkins and chrysanthemums are readily available in most stores. Often interspersed among them are pots of bright green succulents with striking tubular flowers in ...

Springtime in the desert can sometimes be downright spectacular, particularly after wetter-than-normal winters, when Mexican gold poppies blanket foothill slopes. Even when conditions have been ...

Deserts around Tucson — after putting on an early but sporadic wildflower show — are making up for that somewhat tepid start with a bonanza of colorful cactus blooms in late April. Saguaro, cholla and ...

As fall progresses toward winter, chrysanthemums disappear from our retail seasonal plant choices to be replaced by poinsettias and Christmas cacti, with their butterfly-like blooms. Interestingly, a ...

Is it really a cactus? Yep, it may not look like it has anything in common with cousins like the prickly, giant Saguaro of the Sonoran desert, but the colorful “Christmas cacti” on sale everywhere ...

Succulents – like these echeverias in a Davis garden in 2014 – offer a lot to gardeners looking for interesting drought-tolerant plants that can survive extended periods without additional water.

You've spent a ton of time in the garden this season, perfecting everything your eyes can see and your hands can touch. By daylight, your sprawling outdoor paradise is a gorgeous sight to behold, but ...