As any experienced San Antonio gardener knows, South Texas summers can be brutal on plants. Following a brief burst of color in spring, the summer heat descends, often accompanied by months of little ...

The spiky desert succulents typically blossom beginning in late February. But this season, many started growing flowers up to ...

For wildflower chasers, March, April and May mean bursts of magnificent color from seemingly mundane plants in the Mojave Desert. Blooms in burnt orange, fuchsia and soft yellow are gifts from native ...

FILE PHOTO: A view shows the area of an unusual winter bloom on Atacama desert prior to the spring phenomenon known as 'Desierto Florido' (Bloomed desert), which fills the driest desert in the world ...

"That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people'." This is how George Harrison explained the origins of the ubiquitous and iconic daisy that defined ...

Our neighboring desert in New Mexico and Texas is a great source of drought-tolerant plants. Chihuahuan Desert plants also tend to do well in cooler climates since much of the Chihuahuan Desert is at ...

While studying plant identification in college, the hardest to learn were the "miscellaneous green shrubs." For example, Xylosma is identical to Ficus to the untrained eye as both have the same sized ...

With their large, trumpet-shaped blooms and rich, bright colors, hibiscus flowers are a wonderful addition to any garden. However, these plants may not suit everyone. Tropical hibiscus flowers can ...

Rare monsoon rains have briefly turned Rajasthan’s Thar Desert green, awakening dormant seeds and wildlife, offering a ...

Every April for the past decade, systems biologist Rodrigo Gutiérrez has driven 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to reach one of the driest places on Earth: Chile’s Atacama Desert, parts of which ...

The Mojave Desert is often portrayed as empty space waiting to be filled with solar panels, but the ground beneath those arrays can be as biologically rich as any national park. New research on a ...

Rare winter rains have transformed Chile’s Atacama Desert into a vibrant sea of wildflowers. Scientists explain how dormant seeds survive extreme dryness and bloom suddenly when unusual weather brings ...