What would a botanical garden in the Southwest be without a cactus and succulent garden in it? That is what we have at the Gardens at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. The ...

Looking for something interesting to do this summer? Hillside Desert Botanical Gardens might pique your interest — or prick your fingers, if you don’t heed the warnings. Plan a visit to this local gem ...

It's is easy to remember genus Ferocactus if you think ferocious-cactus. The species are distributed over Southern California, Baja and Arizona are fabulous in the wild and even better tended in our ...

Now that spring is here, it's time to enjoy the flowers, even those from prickly plants. The El Paso Cactus and Rock Club will have its Garden Tour 2022 on April 9. El Pasoans are invited to visit ...

Go ahead and call it the wedding cake. The three-tiered Tovrea Castle, visible from the Loop 202, is a Phoenix icon that beckons like a desert mirage with an outer defense of saguaro cactuses. The ...

The Colorado hookless cactus has far more specimens in the wild, and a better drought survival record, than previously thought It took two years from proposal to acceptance. But apparently the ...

"Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere." Mae West's words came to mind while reading an academic paper on cactus flowers which described them as "promiscuous" blooms. Perhaps cactus flowers ...

Answer: Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii), a hybrid plant and member of the cactus family, is known for blooming during the holiday season here in the northern hemisphere. The showy flowers ...

The city has earmarked $60,000 for the renovation of the cactus garden at Pearson Park to bring it back to its heyday when it was tended to by several parks department employees, including Rudy Boysen ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — As Earth Day approaches on April 22, one local business owner is committed to environmental stewardship throughout the entire year. Joe Davidson, the owner of Cactus Joe’s, a ...

Permian High School art teacher Luis Trejo Fuentes is seeking cactus donations for the campus’ outdoor garden. Contributions have started coming in, but the garden is large, so the more the merrier.