As any experienced San Antonio gardener knows, South Texas summers can be brutal on plants. Following a brief burst of color in spring, the summer heat descends, often accompanied by months of little ...

For wildflower chasers, March, April and May mean bursts of magnificent color from seemingly mundane plants in the Mojave Desert. Blooms in burnt orange, fuchsia and soft yellow are gifts from native ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

Bright purple and yellow flowers blooming in the Atacama desert as part of the irregular "flowering desert" phenomenon in the north of Chile - Copyright Pakistan ...

Our neighboring desert in New Mexico and Texas is a great source of drought-tolerant plants. Chihuahuan Desert plants also tend to do well in cooler climates since much of the Chihuahuan Desert is at ...

ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient ...

Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both California and Arizona was receiving ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

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 ...

Chile's Atacama desert is the driest in the world but every few years, at springtime, a little corner of it is covered in a carpet of blooming purple and yellow flowers -- a phenomenon that experts ...