The hedgehog cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii) is a lovely small native cactus that has spectacular blooms. It comes in a number of varieties in the wild. The flowers are usually hot pink, 2-3 inches ...

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 ...

SILVER CITY, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today changed the designation of a rare New Mexico cactus from “endangered” to the less-dire “threatened,” reflecting its progress toward recovery ...

"When I was a kid, there were huge hedgehogs in Whitewater Canyon," Clark Moorten recalled one hot afternoon at the garden. We were discussing his favorite cactus genus, Echinocereus. "They spread out ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to remove the lesser long-nosed bat and gypsum wild buckwheat from the list of endangered species and to downlist the Kuenzler ...

While walking along the Coalton Trail through Boulder County Open Space I noticed some small cacti in flower. They were less than 3 inches tall and had cylindrical stems that were partially buried in ...

Springtime in the desert can sometimes be downright spectacular, particularly after wetter-than-normal winters, when Mexican gold poppies blanket foothill slopes. Even when conditions have been ...

Soon I’ll trek into the Mojave Desert, once again chasing cactus colors: strawberry hedgehog cactus on spiky gray columns, pale yellow pencil cholla flowers at sunset. I’ll return in May to see ...

While walking along the Coalton Trail through Boulder County Open Space I noticed some small cacti in flower. They were less than 3 inches tall and had cylindrical stemsthat were partially buried in ...