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 ...

Some plants and trees are best left to cooler fall for planting, but cactus, agave and yucca aren’t shocked at all by summer temperatures. “Cacti, agave and yucca are acclimated to our climate; this ...

We often think of succulents as quirky houseplants, but in the right conditions, these beautiful plants can thrive outdoors - ...

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.

When we think of agaves, we commonly think of the large perennial succulents, that we call century plants. But those agaves are only one part of a very diverse family, Agavaceae. This family has about ...

Conventional wisdom and iconography tell us that cacti and other succulents (or water-storing plants) are most at home in desert locales like Arizona, New Mexico and parts of California. Stephanie and ...

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 ...

If you would like to add some unique plants to the landscape, porch, or even in the house, consider succulent plants. Succulents have thick, fleshy stems, leaves, or roots designed to hold water. They ...

There are counterfeit yuccas in our midst and they are not Joshua trees. Not all plants that have spine-tipped leaves and whorled leaf arrangements are Joshua trees. In fact, some plants with these ...