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 ...

Some plants and trees are best left to cooler fall for planting, but cactus, agave and yucca aren’t shocked at all by summer temperatures. “Cacti, agave and yucca are acclimated to our climate; this ...

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 ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

When we think of agaves, we commonly think of the large perennial succulents, that we call century plants. But those agaves are only one part of a very diverse family, Agavaceae. This family has about ...

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 ...

If you would like to add some unique plants to the landscape, porch, or even in the house, consider succulent plants. Succulents have thick, fleshy stems, leaves, or roots designed to hold water. They ...

My plants are choking. My rain barrel is bone dry, and I do not want to spend hours watering individual plants, plus it wastes what little water we have. What can I plant that doesn’t need a lot of ...

Conventional wisdom and iconography tell us that cacti and other succulents (or water-storing plants) are most at home in desert locales like Arizona, New Mexico and parts of California. Stephanie and ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 35, No. 6 (Jun., 1948), pp. 343-349 (7 pages) The female gametophytes of Hesperocallis undulata Gray and Leucocrinum montanum Nutt. follow the normal type of ...