Mojave yucca plants have a fascinating history in the desert that centers around bloom from April to June. With big crowd on hand, Rancho Mirage tops Palm Springs in CIF-SS playoffs ...

nickkurzenko / Getty Images. The desert willow is a shrub or small tree that can grow 15-30 feet tall and 12-25 feet wide. Hummingbirds and bees enjoy the nectar from its pinkish-to-violet flowers ...

There are several attractive flowering trees, both native and introduced, well-adapted to our desert environment. Blue paloverde (Cerecidium floridum) is the state tree of Arizona and one of the ...

There are plenty of flowering plants that can handle the heat, including those prickly desert natives. “There’s a lot of cacti that have beautiful flowers,” says Noe.

Cotoneasters (Cotoneaster spp.) are hardy, fire-resistant shrubs characterized by their thick, moisture-retaining leaves and low, spreading growth habit, which reduces flame height. Ranging from ...

Desert wild flowers have the opposite strategy, they can wait as seeds for decades until enough rain falls. ... Primrose is a genus of flowering plants that are native to the Northern Hemisphere.

Chihuahuan Desert plants also tend to do well in cooler climates since much of the Chihuahuan Desert is at a higher elevation and experiences colder winters ... The gorgeous purple flowers, ...

“Ironwood trees seem capable of flowering under good times and bad, and for many years,” Malusa said. “They’re the Mick Jagger of desert trees.” The Arizona desert is so beautiful and is ...

In a 1935 he explained: The trees of our desert are few in number but of a hardy strain, able to withstand the demands of life in a land where the unfitted succumb quickly.