Over the last five years, researchers have found that the death rate for saguaros in the Phoenix area jumped from 1% to 2% every year, and is now closer to 7% ...

The Saguaro Cactus in the Desert. The saguaro cactus is one of the most iconic plants of the American Southwest and can grow to be over 50 feet tall and live for hundreds of years. They are native ...

Meg McNutt did not intend to become the succulent expert at the Pelican Greenhouse. But the longtime volunteer at the New Orleans Botanical Garden and the Greenhouse just got hooked.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. I have started paying attention to succulents. Before this year, I had ...

What do you get when you cross a family estate, two passionate plant lovers and years of hard work and patience? One of La Désirade's most flourishing success stories!

Once the cactus collapses, there’s no coming back. During the summer, half the rain for the year in the Sonoran Desert comes from the monsoonal rains. The season runs from June 15 through ...

Succulents endemic to South Africa and Namibia are drying up and dying across the increasingly hot ... it’s picked up by strong winds. And while desert-adapted plants are able to survive ...

Conventional wisdom and iconography tell us that cacti and other succulents (or water-storing plants) are most at home in desert locales like Arizona, New Mexico and parts of California.