Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden ...

We stood next to the driveway studying a rather stunted Agave americana. Farmers would call this plant a "poor doer" because it's never become established in that two-year old landscape. In fact, it ...

Q: How do I divide the “pups” from my potted and garden-planted aloe, cactus and agave plants without harming the mother plant? I heard you were just supposed to twist them off with some roots, but it ...

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 ...

Question: Is the life of an agave lengthened if its flower stalk is cut off early? I noticed that the blue tequila agave farmers in Mexico keep them trimmed off. — Tom Gearhart, Valley Village Answer: ...

It has been over a year since reviewing my agave collection, so today’s column checks out the development of selected specimens and compares the form variations of these popular plants. Agaves are ...

Scientists in Australia think hardy agave plants could be the next big biofuel source. In addition, the bioethanol produced from the plants could help fill unprecedented global demand for hand ...

In Aztec culture, the goddess Mayahuel represented fertility and the agave plant, making her a fitting namesake for the majestic, decades-old agave Americana that grows in the center of the desert ...

Almost exactly one year ago, this column featured Mangaves, new succulent plants for the garden. Mangaves are new plants because they are crosses between two well-established Mexican plant genera: ...