During its growing season (late spring and summer), keep desert rose's soil moist but never soaked. Check on the soil ...

The chaste has dense foliage for a desert tree, and loses its leaves in the fall. Click HERE to subscribe for free to the Weekly Fix, the digital edition of Las Vegas Weekly!

But as climate change makes heat waves more frequent, intense and long-lasting, experts say the increasingly severe conditions are testing some iconic desert plants known for their resilience ...

Saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea), Sonoran Desert, Arizona, United States. A mature saguaro can store 5000 liters of water. To accommodate this it has pleats, like an accordion, that run up its ...

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A desert kurrajong tree stands against the twilight dusky night out near Mount Magnet.(ABC: Chris Lewis)With bright green leaves and what looks to be manicured foliage on top of a straight trunk ...

Don Admiral, the founder of the Palm Springs Desert Museum in 1938, was an admired naturalist, educator, native desert plant champion, and author of the book Desert of the Palms (1938).

If you want to conserve water and don't relish spending hours every day dousing your plants by hand, a desert garden can be the answer. You can easily select plants that get by on minimal rainfall.

The Desert Bouquet. In the desert, clumps of dense green foliage erupt from the stone-strewn landscape, each rounded mound dotted with dozens of vibrant yellow flowerheads.

Lerner by a planted acacia tree in the Negev Desert. The Negev is the oldest undisturbed surface on Earth, exposed to the elements for about 1.8 million years. It covers more than half of Israel.

With a flurry of binoculars, notepads and GPS buttons being pushed, the 2009 Simpson Desert Ornithological Trek begins. Our leader is Andrew Harper, one of Australia’s most accomplished desert ...

Over two nights in the desert, I discovered just how easy it is to fall in love with an unloved insect. And why “mothing” may be the best way to discover the miracle of biodiversity in your ...