A newly discovered plant found by a national park volunteer in the Texas desert is a small, fuzzy flower that pokes up between rocks. With its limited range, this species could be threatened by ...

The desert may seem like the last place you'd expect to find flora. Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world.

Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis). A small, graceful tree that grows to a max of 30 feet, the desert willow produces fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers and beanlike seedpods.

We may imagine the desert to be a barren, empty place of sun drenched sands. But here, in the deserts of Arabia, a myriad of beautiful flowers bloom.

If April showers bring May flowers, what will May rainstorms bring? The answer to that was all around and dazzling because desert plants are programmed to race to make seeds and buds and flowers.

White desert plumbago (Plumbago scandens) is a native mid-size shrub that has lovely white flowers at the ends of long stalks. It’s roughly mounded in shape and grows about 3-4 feet tall and wide.

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

When it comes to hardy desert plants, cacti and succulents are your new best friends. ... Flowers in Bloom. A low-maintenance backyard doesn’t mean all gray rocks and no color.

Inside Desert Botanical Garden’s ‘Orchid Fever.’ “There are over 3,000 blooming orchids in this space, and it's really special for us because we just premiered this new building that ...

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