I wrote an article on July 23, 2009, for this column on preparing a landscape garden and planting cacti plants. I have been intrigued with cactus and how they can survive the most inhospitable growing ...

When Lena Astilli first bought her home outside of Denver, she had no interest in matching the wall-to-wall green lawns that ...

Many home renovations, launched with strict parameters, often bleed into other areas. Painting a single room makes the rest of the house look tired and dingy, for example, so the task morphs into a ...

The saguaro cactus towered over the hilltop outside Tucson like a massive hand rising out of the earth. Generations of hikers posed for pictures at the base of the hulking, treelike plant, whose ...

With record heat in August, water restrictions, and rising water bills, experts explained it’s more important than ever to ...