They hoard water, manufacture food at night and con their helpers into working for free. Beneath their celebrated blooms, desert wildflowers are survivalists — plants that vigorously defend their ...

“Desert Flower” is a weighty biopic that by all rights should have bloomed more fully than it does in the hands of writer-director Sherry Hormann. That said, a lovely performance by Ethiopian ...

Stop and smell the cactus. Desert wildflowers are in bloom. But don’t wait too long to see them. With sparse rains, many of the flowers already are wilting in low elevation areas such as the canyons ...

Gertrude Jekyll would have loved our desert palette if she hadn't been born in Victorian England. This "mother" of the color-centric English perennial border often utilized soft grays, cool colors and ...

COPIAPÓ, Chile — Here’s a softer side to the disruptive weather phenomenon known as El Niño: an enormous blanket of colorful flowers has carpeted Chile’s Atacama desert, the most arid in the world.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, California survey, 1995. Image on file. (On plaque on wall of building:) Desert Star (copyright symbol) 1992/Robert Perless/Fabricated by:/Robert Perless/Stephen ...