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

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.

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.

Mycorrhizal fungi are vital to ecosystems around the world, but remain largely understudied, especially in arid regions. They ...

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

Surrounded by a vast, dry desert, The Dive Shop and its competitor, 72 Aquatics, have bolstered a thriving community of ...

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

A mesquite bosque and 1,500 other desert plants will adorn a new 40-acre city of Tucson site on East Drexel Road just west of South Houghton Road that will double as a desert park and an effluent ...

A lawsuit filed on Tuesday argues the federal government knows a rare desert wetland wildflower is in trouble, but it isn’t ...

The cactus, palms and succulents anchoring yards around the desert can successfully be planted in the heat, but don't wait. And getting some advice from a nursery is a good idea should you choose to ...