If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...

From Clovis to Hanford in Central California, the mature succulents known as agave americana are dying. And there is little anyone can do. But this isn’t a case of errant pesticides, disease or insect ...

Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

Two agave plants are in rare bloom for the next couple of weeks after being planted nearly 30 years ago at the University of Colorado Boulder. The agave is also known as a “century plant” because of ...

MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked. A decade later, his ...

BOULDER, Colorado — Two "century plants" are putting on a show on the CU Boulder campus with once-in-a-lifetime blooms atop towering stalks, the University of Colorado Boulder said on Thursday. The ...

After nearly 30 years of waiting, two agave plants on the CU Boulder campus are having their moment in the sun. Rare Agave Bloom https://youtu.be/B7lZ9xU_9mo The ...

SEQUIM — It took five Master Gardeners two hours and one trailer load to remove the popular agave plant that’s been at the corner of North Fifth Avenue and West Spruce Street for nearly 30 years.