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 ...

In the hills of Templeton a unique and rare garden has been sown that really should be growing somewhere in the desert. Jim Harlow has created a wonderland of over 100 species of agave — and that ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. When people think of an Agave, they usually ...

The architectural, and sunny landscape world of Agave, Yucca and Aloe welcomes the Mangave with the introduction of the Art & Sol Collection. We had this plant in what I would have called the ...

The milder weather through late October and early November has certainly caused the plants to react. Right at the very top of ...

Water continues to be a precious commodity. Perhaps you are reworking your garden with water in mind and are looking for new, more drought-tolerant garden plants. Have you ever considered “Our Lord’s ...

On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca. These very large plants are up to five hundred years old with multiple, tall ...

Q: When do agave weevils turn into grubs so I can time the treatment to the soil with a pesticide at the correct time? A: Agave weevil control is done from about the middle of April until the middle ...

My plants are choking. My rain barrel is bone dry, and I do not want to spend hours watering individual plants, plus it wastes what little water we have. What can I plant that doesn’t need a lot of ...