The desert rose (Adenium obesum) is a slow-growing plant, only growing about 12 inches per year. Desert rose is often used as a bonsai plant thanks to its thick succulent trunk, thin and delicate ...

There's nothing we love more than a flower bed filled with bountiful, blooming roses. While grabbing a potted shrub at your local nursery might be the easiest path to instant garden gratification, you ...

Q: This last summer, I bought a beautiful desert rose plant. I transplanted it into a terra cotta pot and have kept it in a sheltered spot to protect it from frost. Now I just noticed that the thick ...

Sunflowers, herbs, and many other plants are easy to propagate. You can multiply them by sowing seeds, dividing bulbs and tubers, or starting cuttings from the stems or leaves of most herbaceous ...

Clear plastic shoeboxes make for suitable rooting cases. Learn how to grow a rose from a cutting and a slip using the hardwood or softwood propagation technique. Roses are surprisingly easy to root. I ...

For many gardeners, the flowers of the desert rose -- unrelated to common rose plants -- represent the apex of elegance and beauty. Although some botanists recognize a single species (Adenium obesum) ...

Temperatures dropping to 40 degrees signal it is time to bring indoors favorite plants that have been growing on the patio all summer. Plants that need to be brought indoors are those that are damaged ...