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 ...

If there’s one thing yucca plants don’t need, it’s excessive pampering. These plants naturally grow in the arid regions of the American Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean—so they can handle droughts ...

Question: I have a yucca that has finally matured enough to flower. Do I leave the flower stock on or cut it off once the flowers are dead? Normally we cut off the flower stalk as soon as the flowers ...

The Coastal Wildflower Bloom, a fine one on account of lots of rain and sunshine, will continue through April. One of the best spots for viewing a great variety of flowers is Torrey Pines State ...

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.

Stop and smell the cactus. Desert wildflowers are in bloom. But don’t wait too long to see them. With sparse rains, many of the flowers already are wilting in low elevation areas such as the canyons ...

If you have a yucca plant in your landscape, it is likely blooming now. The waxy cream-colored blossoms that the plant is displaying are particularly noticeable this year. Supposedly yuccas bloom in ...

...the first thing you do after returning home from a vacation is to run around your garden looking for what has changed! Yep, coming home from Colorado yesterday evening, the first thing I did, ...

The giant yucca certainly lives up to its name: Yucca gigantea rises 30 feet high in ideal conditions, with white blossoms that push out from the center -- flor de izote, as the bloom is sometimes ...

SAN ANTONIO — Vandals have hacked and hauled away almost every single bloom from the yucca plants in Southside Lions Park in southeast San Antonio. One man calls it a crime against nature and a theft ...

A colorful heat-tolerant garden with lots of different green and flowering plants - Photos By R A Kearton/Getty Images If you're looking for a stunningly attractive plant with good structural form ...