No desert landscaping is complete without agave plants. With over 300 species available – in all shapes and sizes – there’s a ...

Joshua trees are unique to the Southwestern United States, with the majority of their population located in California. But not even the desert-adapted trees are immune to climate change, which ...

If your tree starts to shed leaves come December, ... Here’s what you should do to prepare your desert landscaping for fall and winter. How to care for your cacti in winter.

Day 3: March 20 - Joshua Tree National Park: Today, explore the wonders of Joshua Tree National Park with NPCA’s California Desert Program Manager and partners. This popular park is best known for its ...

Celebrate the desert's dazzling plants at ‘Xerophilous' The Living Desert is spotlighting arid landscape amazingness; think ocotillos, palo verde trees, and beautiful barrel cactuses, too.

As firefighters battle a massive wildfire in the eastern Mojave Desert, national park officials and ecologists are preparing for habitat losses that are likely to alter the landscape forever ...

Firefighters are working to control a massive blaze that swept through the California desert and into Nevada. A wildfire of this scale is not common in the Mojave Desert landscape, known for its ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in ...