Near Palm Springs, California, Joshua Tree National Park is a protected desert expanse named for its signature yucca plant ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in June 2020. “To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full ...

“To know the smoke tree is an experience; but one cannot know it at its strikingly best unless he has seen it in full flush of flower in June or early July, after the first blast of summer heat has ...

For the past 15 years, Philip Rundel has been developing this book through his long-term relationship and travels in deserts of the Southwestern United States, northern Chile and southern Africa. His ...

This year’s holiday lineup in the High Desert includes Christmas tree lightings, parades, toy giveaways and visits with Santa ...

APRIL IN THE CALIFORNIA DESERT? It's a month you could confidently deem especially "festival-forward," thanks to all of the sizable under-the-sun celebrations. These parties are usually awash in art, ...

Desert destinations are having a major travel moment. Once thought of as quiet, remote, or “drive-through” places, many ...

Vines are an easy, organic way to jazz up desert trees. If you have a lackluster paloverde or mesquite tree in your yard, training a vine up a trunk adds color and interest. In fact, even a dead tree ...

A firefighter with the National Park Service says a fire wiped out more than a thousand Joshua trees amid the government ...

Q: My young acacia tree has abundant growth but only on the top half of the branches. Each of these branches is losing many leaves halfway up the branch. There is a lot of growth at the top of the ...

My four-week Saturday class, Fix Your Landscape, will start Oct. 26 in North Las Vegas. This weekly landscaping class will show you design tricks that save water and electricity, plant selections that ...

It’s been a while since we’ve had such an outpouring for something that doesn’t have to do with Donald Trump: Dozens of readers wrote letters to the editor expressing dismay over the construction of a ...