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 ...

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) ...

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) ...

Perhaps it was his more than 20 years in communications with the Atlantic Railroad in Punta Gorda that prepared Ernest Bryant to communicate with the flowers, and in particular the lovely desert rose.

KALAAT M'GOUNA, Morocco — Gloved and armed with shears, women weave through thorny brambles, clipping and tossing their harvest into wheelbarrows. “Thank God for the rain,” said rose picker Fatima El ...