It's easier than you think to diversify your landscaping while sticking to the same aesthetic that you know and love. If you live in a hot, dry area, one of the most popular plants is the red yucca ...

Yucca is a genus of over 40 perennial plants, shrubs, and trees. A few are grown as houseplants, including Yucca gigantea ...

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.

The snow has mostly melted and once again yards and fields are brown instead of white. In some undeveloped areas native grasses like little bluestem dot fields with clumps of their copper-colored ...