An agave plant is blooming for the first time at the Red Hills Desert Garden in St. George, drawing crowds to see a stalk ...

Experts explain why agaves some Austin agaves bloomed simultaneously - and what it means for the plants' lifecycle.

After 80 years at the Matthaei Botanical Garden, the University’s American agave plant was cut down before a group of spectators Wednesday morning. According to Mike Palmer, the garden’s manager of ...

Tequila production is a time-honored process that involves growing and harvesting agave, but how much liquor can one plant ...

If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...

Our trainees are measuring our #Agave flower spike on a daily basis. Y'day it grew 12.4cm in 24hrs ! Will it be going thru the roof of our Arid House?! # ...

Seemingly overnight, a Redding gardener said, a rather ordinary-looking plant growing in her yard suddenly developed a bright yellow-tipped, 17-foot-tall flower stalk. The plant sure had never bloomed ...

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SAN DIEGO — An Ocean Beach neighborhood has a new attraction: a giant agave plant that has grown beyond the average height for the species. On Point Loma Avenue, the plant now towers over nearby homes ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At the southeast tip of a large valley in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental is the small Mexican ...