In booming greater Phoenix, a desert style is taking over the landscaping of homes, as more give up green lawns and trimmed hedges for the new fashion of native plant species, wild grasses ...

Beautiful desert trees: Texas Mountain Laurel 10’ tall | 8’ wide . This beauty can almost be called a bush tree. Its fragrant purple flower clusters fill your yard with the sweet smell of spring.

If you want to conserve water and don't relish spending hours every day dousing your plants by hand, a desert garden can be the answer. You can easily select plants that get by on minimal rainfall.

researchers and conservationists across the world to maintain the Sonoran Desert's unique landscape. Also benefiting from the Arizona Lottery's donation is the botanical garden's Desert Refuge ...

The Desert Botanical Garden, a majestic local showcase of desert flora, regularly conducts desert landscaping courses that homeowners can complete at their own pace. The city of Phoenix ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Springtime is a particularly colorful season to visit the Desert Botanical Garden. Visitors who arrive mid-February through mid-June will see an abundance of blooming ...

Across the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's 98 acres, you'll find 230 animal species – including hummingbirds, coyotes and string rays – along with 1,200 local plant species.

Haddad has been growing a “food forest” in his backyard for the past seven years, which includes a variety of subtropical and desert-hardy ... a permaculture landscape design company that ...