Tucked away in a remote desert town, a hidden vault safeguards Chile's most precious natural treasures. From long-forgotten flowers to endangered crops.

Shallow dishes crowded with tiny, drought-resistant plants in shades of green, red and purple are pretty much all most people know about indoor succulents gardening.

Monkeys are not from California. They’re not even visiting snowbirds. But a few have settled nicely into a space customized to their simian preferences.

Joshua trees are jumping the gun on flowering this year, and researchers say the timing glitch could ripple through the Mojave Desert ecosystem. The spiky desert icons, found across California, Nevada ...

China has quietly developed a man-made forest in the Gobi Desert that is now producing high-quality rubber for military and industrial use.

Joshua trees look timeless, which makes early blooms feel almost harmless at first glance. Scientists see something more specific: a signal that environmental cues may be shifting in ways that can ...

It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

Since the fig forms its fruit on shoots that start to grow in the spring, it can be radically pruned in the winter without ...

The date shake, a blend of dates and ice cream, originated in the 1930s in California’s Coachella Valley and became a symbol ...

Joshua trees, the iconic spiky succulents that typically flower between February and April, began blooming in mid-November ...

Citrus fruits mostly ripen through winter and into spring, although many types linger on their trees long enough to seem like summery fruits.