Sunlight paints the land in gold, and resilient blooms rise through the heat with effortless grace. Each petal seems to ...

Something magical is happening in the barren landscape of the Atacama Desert in Chile, considered the driest place on our planet with annual precipitation that can only be measured at a fraction of an ...

"I want to keep bees." she said. "What plants should I grow for them here? This simple question is challenging in the desert because it's hard to grow traditional "pollinator" flowers in our climate.

On a rare "super bloom" year in California, Edom Hill near Palm Springs typically turns green with vegetation, signaling the impending crush of wildflowers across the state's deserts. For that to ...

GOLD IN THE DESERT: Plenty of prospectors famously went in search of gold in and around the arid stretches of California, and history tells us that they frequently came up gold-less and empty-handed.

How many times do we say or hear, “But, it’s a dry heat?” Now that we are in the ‘hot spell’ of the desert valley, albeit for the next four months, we still want our landscape pots filled with flowers ...

We're clinging to spring for dear life as hotter days approach. Temperatures in the 90s are already upon us. 😢 Since Saturday, April 22 was Earth Day and we haven't quite hit the triple digits yet, ...

ATACAMA, Chile (Reuters) -In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening ...

They stymie folks with heavy clay soils because the blanketflowers are allergic to excessive moisture. This is why they are showing up in arid landscapes all over the West. Few perennials are as able ...

El Pasoans enjoyed the return of Poppies Fest over the weekend. The March-long, city-sponsored festival celebrating the golden poppies began on Saturday, March 9, at the El Paso Museum of Archaeology, ...

LAS VEGAS -- As a flurry of building activity transforms great expanses of desert floor into upscale time-share and condo high-rises on the Strip and beyond, Las Vegas seemingly overnight has opened ...