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 ...

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.

This is a photo of Eriophyllum lanosum, one of the desert winter annuals that Larry Venable, an ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his collaborators monitored for 26 years. The ...