Los Angeles sits in a semi-arid basin that sees most of its modest rainfall between December and March. The rest of the year, ...

They came north out of Mexico into the Desert Southwest with the Spanish, though nobody knows their actual point of origin. It’s because so many pre-Columbian cultures, including the Aztecs, utilized ...

"Building a collection of smaller Agaves is unlike collections of roses, Dahlias, Irises and other popular garden plants," ...

An agave Americana succulent plant that only blooms once every half-century is about to bloom in Monterey.The cactus-like agave, also known as a "century plant," is growing in the Del Monte Shopping ...

The century plant, or Agave americana, is a large succulent native to Mexico. It produces a single, tall flowering stalk ...

As a punishing drought continues to grip California and other areas around the globe, scientists are exploring hardy succulents as a pathway to genetically engineer plants to use less water.Agave and ...

For most garden plants, flowering is a sign of renewed life. That’s not the case with the succulent blue agave (Agave tequilana). Like other agaves, tequilana flowers only at the end of the plant’s ...

"Agaves are one of 23 genera of the agavoideae, a subfamily of the Asparagus plant family (asparagaceae)," writes garden ...

Go ahead and tell me you can resist agave Blue Glow — the dwarf, well-behaved, barely prickly (snip the tips with scissors if you worry) succulent that you can tuck into all sorts of garden settings.

We stood next to the driveway studying a rather stunted Agave americana. Farmers would call this plant a "poor doer" because it's never become established in that two-year old landscape. In fact, it ...