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 ...

Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster spp.) are hardy, fire-resistant shrubs characterized by their thick, moisture-retaining leaves and ...

Sunlight paints the land in gold, and resilient blooms rise through the heat with effortless grace. Each petal seems to ...

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 ...

I left in the dark and pulled into the quiet, vacant parking lot at the trail head. For just a moment, I stopped wrestling with my gear and camera and just stood in the perfect silence among the ...

"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 ...

If you're one of the many people who are into succulents, then you know that they are a great plant to have around. They're beautiful, they don't take up much space, and they're relatively easy to ...

I spent last week in Palm Desert, California, where the daily temperatures were 110 degrees or more and the humidity was less than 20 percent. The landscapes I saw there are completely foreign to our ...

I took a drive to Phoenix, Arizona, just a week into May to see my son and his family. What made it a phenomenal drive was that much of the desert in both California and Arizona was receiving ...