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If you’re thinking about welcoming a new scaly-skinned addition to your home, allow us to introduce you to the best types of ...

The prickly pear cactus (opuntia engelmannii) is a quintessential desert plant, highly useful to many species including our ...

But if you want a mobile that’s easier to tote than the models on our overall best smartphones list, what’s the best small phone you can buy? There’s no escaping that handset dimensions have expanded ...

Durian, a stinky, spiky fruit, was used to make simple syrup for Weston Fetterolf's "Essence of Royalty," which took top ...

We ate hyperlocal dishes served out of a trailer in a rural Virginia field, experienced one of America’s most refined ...

'Irwinii' is a compact shrub with small, spiny, evergreen leaves and orange flowers in spring, followed by blue-black berries ...

There's an argument that there is no such thing as a small smartphone anymore. However, while the size of what we might classify as a small phone might have changed slightly, they do still exist.

A large, strong-growing, spreading, evergreen shrub with arching shoots and small, spiny, glossy, dark green leaves. Clusters of small, rich orange flowers are produced in late spring, and often again ...

And in a native yard, Chapote or Texas Persimmon blends well with Granjero, Spiny Hackberry ... You can also enjoy them in jams or as dried fruit. And maybe this year is the year I get organized to ...