June is the month when agave and yucca plants flower and the phone and e-mail messages pile up as these succulents bloom across the county. There is much confusion about agave and yucca – which is ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. When people think of an Agave, they usually ...

A rose is a rose is a rose, but an agave? It might not smell as sweet as a rose, but that bad boy with the steely blue leaves can stand out like a piece of sculpture in the landscape. And when its ...

In the hills of Templeton a unique and rare garden has been sown that really should be growing somewhere in the desert. Jim Harlow has created a wonderland of over 100 species of agave — and that ...

The milder weather through late October and early November has certainly caused the plants to react. Right at the very top of ...

The architectural, and sunny landscape world of Agave, Yucca and Aloe welcomes the Mangave with the introduction of the Art & Sol Collection. We had this plant in what I would have called the ...

Water continues to be a precious commodity. Perhaps you are reworking your garden with water in mind and are looking for new, more drought-tolerant garden plants. Have you ever considered “Our Lord’s ...

On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca. These very large plants are up to five hundred years old with multiple, tall ...