They hoard water, manufacture food at night and con their helpers into working for free. Beneath their celebrated blooms, desert wildflowers are survivalists — plants that vigorously defend their ...

Some plants and trees are best left to cooler fall for planting, but cactus, agave and yucca aren’t shocked at all by summer temperatures. “Cacti, agave and yucca are acclimated to our climate; this ...

In the fifth grade, while all you Northwest natives were learning about hemlocks, Douglas firs and bigleaf maples, I was learning cactus. Cholla, organ pipe, saguaro ...

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West's words came to mind while reading an academic paper on cactus flowers which described them as "promiscuous" blooms. Perhaps cactus flowers ...

Rare winter rains in Chile's Atacama Desert cause a brief, vibrant flower bloom. Dormant seeds sprout, turning desert into a floral carpet. Scientists study the bloom to learn about plant survival and ...

We may imagine the desert to be a barren, empty place of sun drenched sands. But here, in the deserts of Arabia, a myriad of beautiful flowers bloom. Fragrent oxeye is a relatively common sight in the ...

You probably answer this question each spring, but I confess to age and short memory. Why is the predominant color of native desert flowers yellow? I assume it has to do with attracting insects for ...