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 ...

"That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people'." This is how George Harrison explained the origins of the ubiquitous and iconic daisy that defined ...

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 ...

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 ...

The triad of perennial salvias for desert gardens yields color, scent and cut flowers for little water. Knowing which ones to choose is crucial to making these amazing sub shrubs perform to their ...

I left in the dark and pulled into the quiet, vacant parking lot at the trail head. For just a moment, I stopped wrestling with my gear and camera and just stood in the perfect silence among the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Flowers bloom in the Atacama Desert in Chile, considered the driest non-polar resion in the world. Source - Joselyn Anfossi Mardones from Chiguayante, Chile. CC SA 2.0. Flowers bloom in the Atacama ...