While hiking near Big Bend Ranch State Park's Contrabando Trail, something Michael Alvard had never seen before caught his ...

Keeping an eye on light, water, and temperature during this period can even encourage a second bloom in late winter or early ...

Along the coast, this buck and doe are dining on prickly pear cactus, and further inland, a hungry javelina munches a thorny ...

Writes Steve Conway: "Looking forward to 2026, I’m excited to see new ways gardeners are exploring the potential of a local plant palette." ...

Succulents generally thrive on benign neglect. Quickly draining soil is the foundation of succulent and cactus care.

Maybe you've dabbled around propagating some of your favorite houseplants like Monstera, Philodendron, Coleus, Christmas ...

Holiday cacti is often received as a gift over the Christmas holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter cactus are often ...

This time of year, as the weather freezes and gardening outside comes to a halt, we begin to look inside to satisfy our need ...

The solstice marks the shortest day -- and longest night -- of the year, when the earth reaches the point in its annual ...

The popularity of cacti and succulents has made these once-specialty plants widely available and introduced a new generation ...

Jessica Logan’s first houseplant was a fairy castle cactus — a modest starter plant by any measure. She bought it while in ...

Some of the holiday plants I wrote about last week have interesting stories. I wrote about our Christmas cactus; however, it is actually a Thanksgiving cactus. These normally bloom earlier than ...