Press asked seasoned High Desert gardeners what the best plants to grow during winter are in the Victor Valley area. Here are ...

The work of natural selection offers a key to the puzzle. Desert leaves tend to be small, thick-skinned, waxy, or spiny‚ just like leaves in salty regions or other harsh lands—clear examples ...

This splash of yellow sunshine has a variety of names, such as cowpen daisy, golden crownbeard, butter daisy, and wild sunflower. Scientifically known as Verbesina encelioides, it is a member ...

The researchers used potted trees in the Desert Botanical Garden, which gave them the ability to control environmental factors, to study how plants coped with increasingly severe heat waves.