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 ...

Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden.

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.

Bring the warmth of the desert indoors this winter when it's too cold to garden outside.

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 ...

An agave Americana succulent plant that only blooms once every half-century is about to bloom in Monterey.The cactus-like agave, also known as a "century plant," is growing in the Del Monte Shopping ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...