Question: Why is the green and yellow variety of agave more susceptible to attack from weevils than the blue? The octopus agave's never get attacked. It doesn't matter what time of year either, those ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- With a pop of yellow, the grand finale has begun here, where a rare American agave plant has begun to bloom for the first and only time in 80 years. "We just noticed some buds ...

In sheltered gardens, light is where you'll find it. When it's too shady to grow golden barrel cactus, getting that bright gold color is difficult. Without it the composition becomes too monochromatic ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

It has been over a year since reviewing my agave collection, so today’s column checks out the development of selected specimens and compares the form variations of these popular plants. Agaves are ...

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 ...

Known as the century plant because it blooms infrequently, it is native to Mexico and the American Southwest and typically lives 10 to 25 years in the wild before blooming a single time then dying.

REDLANDS >> Agave, perhaps best known for its role in the production of tequila, is a succulent widely appreciated by landscape architects in desert regions because of its rapid growth rate and ...

A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the University of ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

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 ...