RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — It’s that time of the year when countless colorful cactus blooms cover South Texas wildlands from coastal prairie to arid brush country. More species of ...

It's beginning to look a lot like cactus. Or Christmas. Or Christmas cactus. Given our Mojave Desert location, traditional evergreen Christmas trees are hardly native flora. But, when it comes to ...

Permian High School art teacher Luis Trejo Fuentes is seeking cactus donations for the campus’ outdoor garden. Contributions have started coming in, but the garden is large, so the more the merrier.

What would a botanical garden in the Southwest be without a cactus and succulent garden in it? That is what we have at the Gardens at the Las Vegas Springs Preserve, 333 S. Valley View Blvd. The ...

Editor's note: This story was initially published on Dec. 20, 2020. Updated in December 2025. Under the right conditions, Christmas cacti are the holiday plants that keep blooming, and not just for ...

Did your Christmas cactus bloom before Thanksgiving this year? If so, you likely are the proud plant parent of a Thanksgiving cactus, not a Christmas cactus. A Thanksgiving cactus normally blooms ...

RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Along the coast, this buck and doe are dining on prickly pear cactus, and further inland, a hungry javelina munches a thorny pad. The new year has yet to ...

The recently rejuvenated Arizona Garden at Stanford University boasts a meticulously groomed and exuberant succulent theme, demonstrating the vitality of an earlier epoch in garden history. Originally ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three small cacti in pots on a windowsill, all of them are leaning far towards the right and looking sick - Anton Novikov/Getty ...

Steve Bowdoin is apt to tour the Ethel M Holiday Cactus Garden, which makes sense because for the past six years, he has been the man who has orchestrated its design and construction. But Bowdoin does ...