Gardening experts offer their best tips for thriving succulents. If you’re looking for low-maintenance and striking greenery, cactus plants are perfect. They’ve become popular for accentuating homes ...

Pear trees require fertilizer when they are young and when the soil lacks essential nutrients. For young trees, a balanced ...

Q: I have a jar of prickly pear seeds extracted from prickly pear fruit a year or two ago and I am wondering what would be the best way to try to grow them. A: My retired colleague, Jack Kelly, wrote ...

I’ve noticed it is a common New Year’s resolution to be more kind; another way to put this might be to be less prickly! Perhaps a great way to be reminded of such resolve is to add a spineless prickly ...

Last month Ahwatukee music teacher Rhonda Morrison and local master gardener/wild-food educator Kelly Athena presented a musical celebration, “Sunflower and Song” as the first of an intended longtime ...

In parts of Texas, the prickly pear cactus is everywhere — potted outside coffee shops, dotting the side of the road, poking out of cracks in the sidewalk. It also lines the pathways of the University ...