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 ...

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.

I have always been more than impressed by those who pour their lives and hearts into something, only to turn around and give the focus of that attention and affection to someone else. Although, as I ...

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 ...

Many gardening cycles ago, when I was a summer student at the University of Guadalajara, a Mexican friend's family owned a tequila distillery. So one moonlit evening he drove six of us a few miles ...

Recently, taxonomists determined that Manfredas are really Agaves and renamed all Manfreda plants as Agave species,” writes ...

Question: Is the life of an agave lengthened if its flower stalk is cut off early? I noticed that the blue tequila agave farmers in Mexico keep them trimmed off. — Tom Gearhart, Valley Village Answer: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Agave Heritage Festival is a celebration of the desert and its most delicious drink ... mezcal. (That's the fun family of spirits that includes Tequila. 🥃) This annual festival started out as a ...