Your grass and your garden will need about an inch of water per week to thrive (and that includes water from rain, too!).

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She extols several plants currently blooming in her garden whose flowers are in the fiery color spectrum that stretches from yellow to orange to red. The plant she is most enthusiastic about is a ...

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.

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Cinthia Singleton's husband, Matthew, planted a century plant outside their home 20 years ago. Now, only a year after he died ...

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Sand scorpions, nocturnal hunters who spend their days in burrows, also leave distinct tracks.