While cactuses are low-maintenance, they still need specific care. Learn how to help your indoor plants thrive.

Residents of locales outside of this beautiful desert are often astounded when they hear details about our wonderful cactuses. Tell them that a spiny, intimidating cactus can produce a delicate flower ...

Shrubby evergreen foliage and woody stems don’t automatically stir up an image of “cactus,” but we can grow some stunning tropical varieties that produce beautiful flowers and edible fruit, are not ...

The Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix is one of 62 other gardens, arboretums and zoos that take in rescued cactus and succulents. Cactuses are the fifth-most endangered group of living things in the ...

Cactuses and other succulents (yes, cactus is a type of succulent) are as varied in their needs as different types of landscape trees and shrubs. We can’t help but think of a cactus as just a cactus, ...

Cactus and Succulents, Easy and fun for the family: Looking for an easy and fun way to garden indoors this winter. How about creating a nice cacti and succulent garden collection. Easy to care for and ...

The worst time to transplant a cactus is after it rains. The best time to transplant a cactus is after it rains. Rain does something to our cactus in the desert. It puts a relatively huge amount of ...

Succulents, which are plants with fleshy stems or leaves, are ideal houseplants. They have interesting shapes, are relatively pest-free, and thrive in the dry air of a heated home—and on neglect.

Why would bees be attracted to spine bases or the tubercles they emerge from? I watched them crawling from old tubercle to old tubercle, stopping at each one briefly as though it was a flower. Why are ...