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If you've got prickly pear cactus growing in your garden and you want to know what you can plant along side it, here are 9 ...

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Learn the simple rules for giving Christmas cacti the right balance of light and dark, to ensure you get those spectacular ...

BATIMORE, Md. — Inside the plant shop B. Willow, owner Liz Vayda carefully tends to her livelihood. “Plants are the basis of life,” she said. Yet, they’re also the basis of something else: a lucrative ...

In Mexico, September means chiles en nogada season. But one key ingredient, a candied barrel cactus called biznaga, is now ...