Beautiful and functional, prickly pears are resilient cacti that are perfect if you are looking for low-maintenance and ...

Over the next month, The Desert Sun and The Living Desert are collaborating on a four-part series, Desert Botany: An Intro to ...

The desert plants gathered by the Hohokam - and later the Tohono O'odham - for food, medicine, tools and other things are still around. Even so, many contemporary Tucsonans don't recognize their ...

In the northern region of the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by five mountain ranges and 350 days of sunshine, lies Tucson where native edible plants grow. The saguaro, barrel and nopal cacti are ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression ...

Gardening enthusiasts and nature lovers, reserve Nov. 16 for an extraordinary free event hosted by the Desert Horticultural Society. The organization's Native Plant Community Celebration brings ...

The Saguaro Cactus in the Desert. The saguaro cactus is one of the most iconic plants of the American Southwest and can grow to be over 50 feet tall and live for hundreds of years. They are native ...

A silver cholla cactus glows in the late afternoon light at the Mojave Desert Land Trust’s demonstration garden in Joshua Tree. It’s one of 50 native plants available for sale at the land ...

The Mojave Desert Land Trust is holding its largest-ever native plant sale in Joshua Tree. On Saturday, about 4,000 plants will be on sale, representingover 65 species, which are drought tolerant ...

High Desert native, professor and high school biology teacher Audrey Longshore is on a mission to connect students with the beauty and importance of native plants of the High Desert.

Using native plants makes sense here in the desert because they require less water and they don’t require special care and needs that thirstier, exotic plants require, it’s a win, win.