Despite their prickly appearance, cacti make a great addition to any home and garden space. With their diverse shapes, sizes and colors, these desert-loving plants thrive in various environments, ...

The Chihuahuan Desert is the most biologically diverse desert in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the most diverse in the world. Over 175,000 square miles spanning northern Mexico, southwestern ...

One of the pleasures of the colder months is the opportunity to plan next year’s garden while staying inside where it’s warm. If you are thinking about adding something new to your landscape, why not ...

If you've got prickly pear cactus growing in your garden and you want to know what you can plant along side it, here are 9 ...

The Christmas cactus prefers a little humidity — unlike other cacti and succulents —as well as bright, indirect sunlight.

As the holiday season comes upon us you may want to decorate your home with some lovely colorful flowering plants. Besides poinsettias, there are holiday cacti that have flowers that may be white, ...

When a green cactus develops stripes and patches of yellow or white tissue in its progeny, the unique coloring is called variegation. With the popularity of succulents, this unusual feature is ...

In the hills of Templeton a unique and rare garden has been sown that really should be growing somewhere in the desert. Jim Harlow has created a wonderland of over 100 species of agave — and that ...

The cactus pear is the Rodney Dangerfield of the fruit world, beloved by immigrants from parts of Latin America and the Mediterranean basin but largely ignored by most consumers in the United States.

Winter hardy cactus. That sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? John N. Spain would disagree. "When people say, `I live in the North and nothing would live," I say, `Wait a minute,'" said Spain, a ...