The Desert Botanical Garden has a new exhibit that's an explosion of color. Here's how to visit Super Blooms in Phoenix and ...

A small desert garden is surprisingly easy to create. By combining drought-tolerant plants, gravel mulch, architectural shapes, and a restrained planting palette, even the tiniest patio or city ...

Aloes, those spiky succulents most of us keep on a windowsill, can throw up tall flower stalks in a Tucson garden. I love ...

For 50 years, Desert Botanical Garden’s Plant Sale has brought together two things Arizona gardeners love: extraordinary plants and the people who know how to grow them. This fall, the beloved ...

Lawn fertilizer and leach fields are the two greatest sources of nitrogen (N) in desert soils. With nearly no nitrogen in our sandy valley ground, golf courses have had to apply tons of nitrogen to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Shutterstock / Simone Hogan Credit: Shutterstock / Simone Hogan Nurturing a garden in a desert climate is a unique ...

As The Desert Sun’s opinion and community engagement editor, I’m always looking for ways to collaborate with you, the readers — which is why I jumped at the opportunity to work with horticultural ...

Unsurprisingly, El Paso's hot climate is a result of its location in the Chihuahuan Desert, which extends through parts of western Texas, southern New Mexico and northern Mexico. The Centennial Museum ...

Imagine, for a second, the rhythms of the Sonoran Desert across a full year. Cactus petals unfolding in symphony. The hum of construction in the distance. Chollas standing tall as if in a waltz. A ...

The landscapes of central and southern Arizona offer a beauty that’s almost surreal, especially to visitors from cooler, wetter climes Despite — or perhaps because of — the hot, dry weather, the ...

Spanning over 120 acres and featuring more than a dozen specialty gardens including a Palm Garden, a Shakespeare Garden, a Subtropical and Jungle Garden, the Huntington Botanical Gardens has something ...