The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Arid, harsh environments are where they thrive.

High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this summer.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native ...

High Desert resident Russell Tullar notes that strawberry plants seem to do pretty well in the winter, but don’t produce a healthy amount of berries until the springtime.

The practice of implementing drier plants into a yard has become increasingly popular in the dry area of San Antonio.

As jewelflowers spread into California from the desert Southwest over the past couple of million years, they settled in ...

Between the plants and the critters, a rainstorm like that is a total reset for desert life at all levels. This will be an amazing season out on the land. Tagged: Outdoors ...

Smaller bush or semi-bush pumpkins grow vines about 5-10 feet long, which are better suited for modest-sized gardens. Jalapeño s Spice things up this summer with home-grown jalapeños.

The desert plants gathered by the Hohokam - and later the Tohono O'odham - for food, medicine, tools and other things are still around. Even so, many contemporary Tucsonans don't recognize their ...

From the Atlanta Botanical Garden in Georgia to the Portland Japanese Garden in Oregon, these are the most beautiful gardens ...

High Desert gardener Marie Esposito recommends keeping plants in the shade once the hot winds come. She also uses Fox Farm soil, which doesn't dry out as fast in the desert, she says.