If you're a lover of cacti (Cactaceae spp.), then you're probably familiar with prickly pear plants (Opuntia spp.). Native to the Americas, this perennial succulent is beloved by gardeners in ...

Have you noticed that most hummingbird feeders are bright red? Long before these birds were visiting glass and plastic feeders hanging by house windows, hummingbirds chased shades of red in the wild ...

I was welcomed to my tent site in Chaco Culture National Historic Park by a handsome claret cup cactus. I had been traveling and hiking in New Mexico for two days, and although I had been looking for ...