While it might be tempting to add coffee grounds to your plant every time you brew your morning cup, there are optimal times ...

One of the most beloved this time of year is the Christmas cactus—named for its vibrant flowers that appear right around the ...

Next to my reading chair sits a lighted magnifier, a box of needles and various types of tweezers. This is the desert rat’s surgical kit that’s essential after every workday in my cactus garden. Many ...

Next to my reading chair sits a lighted magnifier, a box of needles and various types of tweezers. This is the desert rat’s surgical kit that’s essential after every workday in my cactus garden. Many ...

That’s how Kim Thorpe describes Desert Creations, the novelty gift shop and well-stocked nursery that she and four friends from the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society opened in Northridge this ...

Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you grow cactus and succulents as houseplants, ...

Facing terminal cancer, retired veterinarian Maggie Wagner went looking for a legacy. She found it in a garden of succulents and cactus.

If your garden yearns for crazy, colorful, drought-hearty plants, the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society aims to satisfy at its first Fall Sale Sept. 16 in Encino. Expect professional growers ...

The “Cactus Man,” a roadside seller of succulents in White Mills, actually got his start with the prickly plants as decorations for his own handmade candles. Richard Powell, 74, was a structural ...

The Arboretum, Arcadia, CA — The 35th Inter-City Succulent and Cactus Show and Sale made up for a lost year this past weekend, with crowds of cactus-crazy people ogling the exhibits of 1,300 strange ...

The Cactus & Succulent Society of Southern Nevada is presenting a cactus show and art fair Oct. 20 and 21. Area residents are invited to submit entries to the show; rules are posted at ...