Today, hundreds of thousands of species of flowering plants have officially been classified, and more are recorded each year.

I f you are a gardener, florist, or lover of nature, then you likely find the vast diversity of flowers and all of their ...

Warm/cool/warm/cool … June weather can be all over the place, from overcast gray “June gloom” drizzles to bright, hot sunny skies. Whether you live along the coast, in the mountains or in the desert, ...

National parks are offering a growing number of nighttime programs for visitors looking for novel experiences or those eager ...

It's pretty easy to identify the most spine-covered, pokey and self-defensive plant in all of Kern County: a cactus known as the Silver Cholla. Silver Cholla (Cylindropuntia echinocarpa) is like a ...

The 'Calandiva' (Kalanchoe blossfeldiana) is a beautiful flower that can be propagated with short stem sections that are ...

Ask anyone who loves a good cup of tea, and they'll tell you the kind of porcelain in your teacup matters more than you think.

The Galápagos were always on Natalie Berry’s bucket list, but the exhorbitant expense had put her off. Could independent travel provide a way to visit Darwin’s unspoiled islands without it costing the ...

The Dollar Tree on Wyoming Boulevard in Albuquerque stands as a monument to the art of the deal, a palace of pennies where New Mexicans can stretch their dollars until Washington’s face gets a ...

Among the early bloomers are red and yellow cholla cactus flowers — adding their hues to landscapes also graced by the scarlet blooms of ocotillos. Chollas often bloom in late April and May ...

The cactus only blooms at night and only once a year, which draws people to Selby Gardens for the special event.

A local cactus once thought to occupy a much larger range and to exist in far fewer numbers is being removed from the federal ...