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 ...

'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera) is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

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 ...

Rare bloom cycle: Agaves flower just once in their lifetime, often after decades, producing towering stalks before the parent ...

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 ...

This evergreen, shrubby succulent grows up to 4 feet tall and wide on sunny, well-drained sites. After a period of years, plants generate a 15-to-25-foot stalk topped with white flowers. Plants die ...

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 ...

A towering American agave plant was cut down Wednesday after it waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds. The unusually old plant had been growing in Ann Arbor since 1934. It grew 28 feet tall ...

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 ...