Despite their prickly appearance, cacti make a great addition to any home and garden space. With their diverse shapes, sizes and colors, these desert-loving plants thrive in various environments, ...

Our region’s cacti are adapted to dry, hot conditions and thrive where many plants cannot. Cacti have lost their leaves and developed fleshy, photosynthetic stems containing water-storing pulp. Cactus ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Chinle Cactus & Succulent Society is a club of 90 members who all share a passion. They believe in educating others about their vital role in Western Colorado’s ...

A local cactus once thought to occupy a much larger range and to exist in far fewer numbers is being removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened plants protected under the Endangered ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing removing a cactus found in only a few local counties from its list of federally threatened and endangered species, saying threats to the plant have been ...

BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood. “Plants are the basis of life,” she said. Yet, they’re also the basis of something else: a lucrative ...

Christmas cactus is one of those holiday plants that people are able to grow year after year. Part of the fun of growing them is to get them to flower again during future Christmas seasons. However, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... At Nick’s Garden Center and Farm Market in Aurora, it takes some searching to find the few San Pedro cacti for sale inside of the sprawling greenhouse. On ...

Low-lying coastal areas like the Florida Keys, which are only a few feet above sea level to begin with, are particularly vulnerable to climate change-induced sea-level rise. A new study details the ...