Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering weather ...

American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat. After blooming, the plants are expected to die shortly thereafter, usually leaving behind clones of ...

An agave plant is blooming for the first time at the Red Hills Desert Garden in St. George, drawing crowds to see a stalk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Clovis to Hanford in Central California, the mature succulents known as agave americana are dying. And there is little anyone ...

Walking out to your garden to find your favorite century plant looking like a heap of soggy, gray mush is a heartbreaking sight for any gardener. Most people would be tempted to grab a pair of ...

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.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life. “Meet Agave ...

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 ...