Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For spring color, it’s hard to beat a Xeriscape. April brought us drought-loving tulips plus a jewelry box of gem-colored phloxes and lavender-blue veronicas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 30—It's the time of year when homeowners are filling their yards with flowers. Many locals wait until the end of April to ...

So this is the year you’ve decided to go xeric. Even with the prodigious snows of April, water restrictions loom in many communities. If not this year, then next year or another down the road. Might ...

Xeric trees and shrubs — including many of our plants originating from our Southwest deserts — seem like magic; give them an irrigation after a long dry period, they grow leaves again, and many flower ...

Xeric garden style still gets a bad rap. Some people shun water-wise landscaping, believing the approach requires stereotypical rocks and cactuses. Xeriscape comes from the Greek word xeros, meaning ...

Preplanned, plant-by-number xeric gardens can be ordered through the Garden in a Box program at Boulder’s Center for Resource Conservation, conservationcenter.org ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Here on the high-desert plains, floriferous need not mean thirsty. Water is the lifeblood of plants, yet many flourish and impressively flower in our ...

We have two general categories of trees and shrubs in Las Vegas regarding their relationship to water, growth and their adaptability to rock covering the surface of the soil: mesic and xeric. These ...

I think a lot of people my age have a fondness of crocodiles thanks to a certain Australian who graced our TVs. You can learn more about these rad reptiles at the ABQ BioPark Zoo this weekend. Or ...