There's a massive Joshua tree forest in northwestern Arizona. You can visit without the fees or crowds you'd find in a ...

Keep in mind that most of these trees grow to be quite large (between 50-100 feet tall), so you need a big yard to accommodate them. I do list one, the Japanese black pine, that can be grown ...

Sixty miles east of Winslow, on the windswept plains of the Painted Desert, maroon-colored Triassic fossils recall a forest more than 200 million years old. Felled logs of the ancient conifer ...

Along a wash west of Oracle Road near Catalina State Park, a soaptree yucca juts from the desert floor like a 30-foot-tall toilet brush. This distinctive-looking plant is more than just big. It is ...

Desert Museum does not grow vigorously in very hard or rocky soils. In such locations, a hole should be dug 2 to 3 feet deep and as wide as you can afford to go -- up to 10 feet or more. Backfill ...

Cactuses are arguably the most recognized plants in the desert, and here in Arizona, the saguaro tops the charts. Towering 40 to 60 feet tall when fully grown, these icons of the American West ...