There is a trend of growing plants that take a lot of care to flourish in the desert. These include tropical or subtropical plants for permaculture “food forests” like avocado and sapote and tender ...

I love Adenium Desert Rose. These tropical plants have a unique structure generating intriguing caudex trunks and blooming ...

Living in the desert, we are able to stretch our plant choices a further than other areas of Arizona, as long as we can provide most of the plants with heavily filtered sun or afternoon shade. The ...

PHOENIX — One place you don’t expect to see tropical trees growing is in the middle of the desert — but that’s exactly what Randy McCabe is doing near the base of South Mountain in Laveen. Drive ...

Gardener grows tropical plants and bananas in the heart of the Arizona desert FOX 10's Renee Nelson visited Grossen Gardens in Gilbert, where 22 different kinds of bananas are grown there, along with ...

Tropical Storm Hilary’s historic rains are great news for wildflower lovers — if you’re into shy desert blooms like the arcing spikes of fringed amaranth (Amaranthus fimbriatus), pops of purple from ...

You don’t have to search to find plants considered desert species in our landscapes. Agaves, Yuccas and cactuses abound, even though we think of Florida’s climate as wet and tropical. How is this ...

As deserts expanded their range over the past 5-7 million years, many plants invaded the new biome and rapidly diversified, producing amazing adaptations to drought and heat. Can plants continue to ...

Tropical blue hues tend to pop against autumn’s subdued browns, beiges and golds in North America’s driest desert. So, the turquoise pools and glittery electric-blue pupfish stand out at Ash Meadows ...

Background Nodulated legumes form a large component of the flora of desert regions, but comparatively few studies have characterised their symbiotic interactions, or their rhizobial microsymbionts.