Here's one more wonder of life in the Sonoran Desert: Wild-growing fruit is just now coming into its edible prime - never mind that it's almost winter. The fruit of the barrel cactus thrives - and ...

From the glorious Sonoran desert landscape to the fascinating Southwestern ingredients, part one of the season finale in Tucson kept me wholly engaged. That our local hero, Evelyn Garcia, shone so ...

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 ...

Question: I would love to plant op-a-la-ah (not sure of spelling) cactus, the kind that looks like Mickey Mouse ears and grows red cactus pears, also known as prickly pears. Several of my neighbors ...

Smart gardeners in West Hawaii are installing some drought tolerant plants in their landscapes. Of course, one of the most drought tolerant groups of plants are those that can thrive in the desert. We ...

The only thing in life we can count on is change. We just didn’texpect things to change as radically as they have since theeconomic meltdown. Nothing is like it was. Now, even less iscertain, as the ...