The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Arid, harsh environments are where they thrive.

High Desert summers require specific gardening techniques due to extreme heat. Try growing these heat-tolerant plants this summer.

Sir David Attenborough explores desert plants with survival tactics. ... ♪ a Euphrates poplar tree. ♪ And it's not alone. Some of these trees have lived here for 1,000 years.

For gardeners and plant people of all sorts who live in the Coachella Valley, summer is a trying time. While many edibles and ornamentals can be grown through the area's mellow winters and can ...

Despite the desert environment of the Coachella Valley, most of the landscaping here is predominantly made up of non-native ...

Discover hundreds of varieties of native plants, succulents, cactus and pollinator-friendly species with more than 30,000 plants to choose from at Desert Botanical Garden’s Spring Plant Sale ...

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

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 ...

High Desert resident Jordan Wechsler has onions high on her list of winter plants. "They do great in winter," she says. The underground plant can tolerate colder weather, even more so under a ...

Since MoBOT closed the Desert House in 1994, they have been showing parts of the collection. Now, with a new facility, they can display it in a dedicated space. Skip Navigation ...

The Southwest is no stranger to sweltering conditions, and desert plants and trees are drought-resistant and heat-tolerant. Arid, harsh environments are where they thrive.