If you're new to the desert, forget everything you knew about gardening back home. You've entered a counter-intuitive climate that breaks every rule you ever learned about gardening. Fortunately for ...

Say the word desert and what comes to mind is an area of little rainfall, extreme temperatures and sparse vegetation. Sounds a lot like Las Vegas, doesn’t it? Well, it should as the city is in the ...

Catherine Crowley’s DNA includes a green thumb. Her grandparents were farmers in the Garden State before she was born; her parents always had a vegetable garden. Both Mom and Dad were scratch cooks ...

“I’m an enemy of the average” stated world-famous Polish singer, socialite, and six-time-married Madame Ganna Walska, who certainly wasn’t average. In 1941 at the age of 58, Walska purchased a ...

Planning for a family outing or a fun date? The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is a beautiful and popular attraction known for its stunning collection of desert plants from around the world. It ...

PHOENIX — If you have yet to visit the Desert Botanical Garden or have been itching to get there this year, Saturday is the day to go. The desert attraction is offering $8 admission on Saturday, Feb.

The foundation of any happy garden is the soil. In fact, some might argue that a gardener’s job isn’t to grow plants but to cultivate healthy soil. In our desert, we are lucky to have plenty of ...

Where the climate is known to be hot, dry, and dusty — in the state second only to Arizona in the number of days with sun — it can be difficult to imagine anything green growing, let alone a fruitful ...

Desert Botanical Garden is celebrating its 85 th anniversary on Feb.10, 2024. Guests at the celebration can enjoy complimentary cactus cookies, hands-on nature play activities, musical performances, ...

A desert rose (Adenium obesum) is, for many, a wistfully nostalgic plant and one that symbolises health, fertility, and good fortune. Its name is something of a red herring, since it's not a rose at ...

Q: I have one hopseed bush out of 20 that was planted about seven years ago and died about a week ago after the rain. I am watering them deeply only once a week. Before the rain, they were all doing ...

PHOENIX (AP) — When I moved to Phoenix last summer, I was bewildered by all the bright green grass I saw smack in the middle of the Sonoran Desert — in residential yards, on golf courses, at community ...