Tom Chester is standing in the middle of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, ignoring the majestic scenery. The towering Santa Rosa Mountains, the wide vistas and the clear blue sky are not what interests ...

"I want to keep bees." she said. "What plants should I grow for them here? This simple question is challenging in the desert because it's hard to grow traditional "pollinator" flowers in our climate.

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 ...

Long before she became a spokeswoman against genital mutilation,Waris Dirie grew up poor and suffering, like so many she knew, introubled Somalia. “Desert Flower” tells her story, from those early, ...

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 ...

This feels clumsily provocative – vultures gather over a hysterical toddler while a toothless old crone brandishes bloody implements - and sadly won’t help a struggling film with its core audience.

Godolphin's undefeated filly Desert Flower produced another authoritative performance over Newmarket’s Rowley Mile Sunday as she made all to win the 1,000 Guineas (G1). Last season’s Fillies’ Mile (G1 ...

“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 ...