When the echinocereus bloom, they shine like huge Burma rubies in the dry desert brush. Even in spring they are so big and bold that all colors fade in comparison with these gem quality flowers. You ...

“Rants from the Hill” are Michael Branch’s monthly musings on life in the high country of western Nevada’s Great Basin Desert. For a solid year now our eight-year-old daughter, Caroline, has been ...

"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 ...

April can be an especially colorful time in the desert, as many of our native cacti unfurl their short-lived but spectacular flowers during these few weeks. Among the very showiest are the hedgehog ...

Some people think of a cute, roly-poly critter when they say hedgehog. But not us. When you say hedgehog, we think cactus. 🦔🌵 And the echinocereus apachensis, or Apache hedgehog cactus, is blooming ...