The current clever advice for how to root rose cuttings is to remove all but the top set of leaves from a cutting, snip a ...

The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in California ...

It’s always summer in the Chicago Botanic Garden’s arid greenhouse, where the view is unlike anywhere else in the world.

There’s something quietly powerful about stepping into a great botanical garden. For a few hours, the noise of everyday life fades, replaced by the scent of roses, the rustle of bamboo, or the ...

The Milo Baker Chapter of the California Native Plant Society presents a talk with ecologist David Self, who will be giving an introduction to native plants of ...

The National Park Service is on the hunt for a boneheaded driver who ripped rare plants during a joyride through Death Valley last month. The suspect left behind more than five miles of tire tracks ...

Death Valley, in California, is among the hottest areas worldwide, and temperature levels during summer often surpass 120ºF. In most plants, this high temperature would be catastrophic, but in ...

A farmer is turning a tidy profit growing beautiful desert roses with just sunlight and minimal water – showing ecofriendly farming can be a thriving business Putin isolated as Russia loses another ...

In the past decades, desert rose has become a very popular ornamental plant, especially among collectors, due to its exotic and sculptural forms. However, it has been grown on a commercial scale only ...

Adenium obesum belongs to the Apocynaceae family and is characterized as a succulent shrub with a multitude of botanical and morphological features of ornamental interest. The aim of this study was to ...

The same plant, with and without water. Image via Wiki Commons. If you happened to walk in the Chihuahuan Desert between Mexico and the US, you might come across one of these things. The odds are, ...