Why is the smell of Arizona's monsoon so distinctive? It releases the aromas of the desert, one ecologist says.

Noelle Johnson moved from coastal California to the desert in 1986, and everything she planted in her new garden died. She wasn't used to the extremes of Arizona's hot and dry climate and neither ...

Here's how to reduce water use and have a lush, colorful yard with drought-tolerant landscaping, including native and desert-adapted plants.

Arizona Illustrated. Desert Plant Special. Season 2025 Episode 29 | 27m 59s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Nurtured by Nature, The Mysterious Crested Saguaro, Restoring the Flora, Desert Willow.

9 desert plants found in Arizona that you can turn into cookies, candy and margaritas. Jul 6, 2016, 10:41 AM. Share . BY SOCORRO CARILLO AND ELIZABETH S. HANSEN/CRONKITE NEWS. KTAR.com.

Noelle Johnson, aka AZ Plant Lady, talks about using mulch in her garden while crouching next to one of the rocks that decorate her front garden at her Chandler home on Feb. 20, 2023.

Arizona's saguaro cacti, a symbol of the U.S. West, are leaning, losing arms and in some cases falling over as record-breaking extreme heat consumes the state, plant researchers say.. Summer ...

Native Arizona plants can cure what ails you . Carrie White; May 22, 2003 ... A good rule of thumb when it comes to desert plants is that they are at their highest potency when they are most aromatic.

The Desert Botanical Garden is storing some Tumamoc globeberry seeds, and Reichenbacher is trying to keep some plants alive at his home greenhouse, which could reinvigorate the species, if necessary.

NARRATOR: Noon in the Sonoran Desert, southern Arizona--temperature, 120 degrees Fahrenheit. In places, as little as an inch of rain falls all year ...