While the Grand Canyon may be Arizona’s best-known national park, it’s not the only one worth a visit. With 22 National Park ...
Cacti are bursting into bloom around the Tucson valley. The milky white flowers of saguaros, yellow blooms of prickly pears and other kinds of cactus are arriving just in time to fill a void left by ...
Saguaro Park in southeastern Arizona, near Tucson, offers a landscape unlike anything you’ll see elsewhere. The park hosts about a million visitors per year (in 2024, 946,000 people visited).
Almost every grocery store or big box home store we walk into right now has a rack of what most people call Christmas cactus. But is it really a Christmas cactus or is it a Thanksgiving cactus? There ...
Proper Christmas cactus care – including attentive watering, the right light levels, balanced fertilization, and temperature ...
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Ariocarpus bloom in the fall

On September 27, I walked into the greenhouse to be greeted by a bloom from my newest specimen, Ariocarpus fissuratus ...
Though the “Christmas cactus” is the most familiar, there are actually three “holiday” cactus types. Here’s how to tell which one you have. Though the “Christmas cactus” is the most familiar, there ...
Our ever-evolving palette of spring color has arrived at a new hue: red. As the season of yellow continues on some hillsides and neighborhoods cloaked with palo verde color, several kinds of cactus ...
Get the inside scoop on how colleges assess your high school and its course rigor. Featuring a former Admissions Officer, you'll gain crucial insights and actionable strategies during this 60-min ...