With our long, hot summers and drought seemingly becoming the norm, many home gardeners are on the lookout for water-efficient plants, and a cactus or two could be solution.

I wrote an article on July 23, 2009, for this column on preparing a landscape garden and planting cacti plants. I have been intrigued with cactus and how they can survive the most inhospitable ...

Pencil cactus (fire sticks), golden barrel cactus, aloe vera, Trailing Indigo Bush, Texas sage, Sharkskin agave, wormwood, and Mexican Fence Post cactus are sparsely planted across the landscape.

Your article "No Need to Get So Prickly" [Feb. 10] hit close to home, touching on many of the landscape themes at our drought-tolerant demonstration garden in Montclair.

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 ...

Forget ‘cactus and gravel,’ Red Butte’s new Water Conservation Garden showcases beauty in the desert Landscaping • Forget “cactus and gravel” at Red Butte’s new Water Conservation ...

The statuesque fairy castle cactus, available from Walmart ... reduce retained heat by opting for paler tones in your yard’s hard landscaping. Whether for paving, walls, gravel gardens or pool coping, ...

We get it, Colorado. You hate xeriscape. You’re probably visualizing it right now. A landscape with neutral colors, rocks and maybe a cactus or two. It appears lifeless and well, just sort of ...

Integrate a variety of seasonal blooms into your landscape design for optimal year-round color. For example, you may want to include different types of cacti with brilliant blooms at different times ...

In the home landscape, these tiny beauties are great for smaller cactus and rock gardens, and can bloom quite profusely if given a bit of additional water.

The cactus garden includes several difficult-to-find plants, such as the upright, faceted and spineless totem pole cacti and a large, variegated whale's tongue agave.

Landscaping with cactus is an acquired taste for many gardeners, but it appears the appetite for the robust plants is growing. Lingering drought, watering bans and low-maintenance requirements are ...