While hiking near Big Bend Ranch State Park's Contrabando Trail, something Michael Alvard had never seen before caught his ...

Lumpy and weirdly shaped plants are a reminder of what can still grow under harsh conditions. A selection of plants from the Cactus Store, a Los Angeles and New York-based creative studio and shop ...

A Texas hiker who stumbles on a once-in-a-lifetime rare cactus in the desert is not just finding a botanical curiosity, but ...

The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither were ...

Pablo Guerrero has been visiting cacti in the Atacama Desert his whole life, first on family trips to the Chilean coast and later as a researcher studying the impacts of climate change and illegal ...

With our long, hot summers and drought seemingly becoming the norm, many home gardeners are on the lookout for water-efficient plants. Although often overlooked, the cacti found in North and South ...

With their tough skins, pointy armor and legendary stamina, cacti are made to defend themselves from whatever nature throws at them. But large solar energy facilities are one threat that cacti weren’t ...