Imagine standing under a midnight sky in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, surrounded by towering saguaro cacti. The air is ...

Cactuses are an integral part of the Arizona landscape — especially the tall saguaros that tower over swaths of the desert. Each year in the late spring, white blossoms emerge in the desert ...

Yet the Desert Botanical Garden is home to thousands of species of cacti, trees and flowers from all around the world. The garden's brightly colored plants sharply contrast the Sonoran Desert's ...

Arizona's iconic Saguaro cactus is dying off at an intense rate with the Desert Botanical Garden saying nearly 20% of their ...

Cacti come in all shapes and sizes, textures and flower colours. There are two main groups of cacti - the desert cacti (usually covered in spines), and the jungle or rainforest cacti (often ...

Some cacti spines are nearly 15cm (6in) long. Boerhavia repens is a desert plant which can germinate, grow, produce flowers and ripen seeds in the space of ten days after it has rained.

Think the desert is all dust and cactus? Think again. One local musician-turned-plant whisperer is hitting all the right ...

EVERY CACTUS IS A POEM, and we don't simply mean ... And if you're a fan of desert succulents and wildflowers and all of the pretty prickly things that spring up around the state's sunnier regions ...