The first time I walked into the Huntington Desert Garden in California, it hit me like a splash of cold water. Arid land hosts some of Earth's most vibrant and explosive sculptural flora. These ...

There are numerous reasons to start a cactus garden. Do you love the intriguing and often otherworldly look of cacti and other succulents? Are you in search of relatively easy-care potted plants? Do ...

The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is one of 62 other gardens, arboretums and zoos that take in rescued cactus and succulents. Cactuses are the fifth-most endangered group of living things in the ...

“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 ...

The worst time to transplant a cactus is after it rains. The best time to transplant a cactus is after it rains. Rain does something to our cactus in the desert. It puts a relatively huge amount of ...

The Desert Botanical Garden, an oasis nestled among the red rocks of Papago Park, turns 86 in February. The idea for a desert garden came from a small group of Valley-based advocates in the 1930s.

The hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) is a lovely small native cactus that has spectacular blooms. It comes in a number of varieties in the wild. The flowers are usually hot pink, 2-3 inches ...

I have desert landscaping, mostly river rock, with several small cactus gardens. My question is what product can I use for weeds in the cactus that will kill weeds only and not hurt the cactus? I'm ...