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 ...

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 ...

Agave lovers are talking about the growth and uses of the plant in Santa Barbara. It can sought after for distilling and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Agaves are popular gardeners’ plants because of their range of sizes, colors and leaf forms. I have been collecting Agaves for years and have been intrigued ...

MURRIETA, Calif. -- 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 ...

'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera) is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

SEQUIM — Isobel Johnston’s agave plant is about to go to new heights, blooming into a towering sight to see along Fifth Avenue in Sequim. A new stalk emerged recently from the nearly 30-year-old plant ...

Kicking off the Monday symposium was California Agave Council President Stuart Woolf, a prominent farmer of almonds, tomatoes ...

Grow near walls in small gardens successfully by choosing heat-tolerant plants that thrive in sun-baked microclimates rather ...