When you're visiting the garden center, it's natural to focus in on plants with beautiful flowers and miss the stunning foliage. So on your next visit, walk around and seek plants with variegated ...

Question: Why is the green and yellow variety of agave more susceptible to attack from weevils than the blue? The octopus agave's never get attacked. It doesn't matter what time of year either, those ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - A towering American agave plant that waited 80 years to flower and produce seeds is dying after fulfilling its purpose and will be taken down next month, said its caretaker at the ...

REDLANDS >> Agave, perhaps best known for its role in the production of tequila, is a succulent widely appreciated by landscape architects in desert regions because of its rapid growth rate and ...

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die is about to do the former. Probably. Housed at the University of the Michigan since 1934, the plant has grown so rapidly since the ...

The variegated false agave forms a big rosette on the landscape and is striking, reaching 8 feet across by 6 to 7 feet in height. It performs much like the century plant, requiring dry conditions and ...

In sheltered gardens, light is where you'll find it. When it's too shady to grow golden barrel cactus, getting that bright gold color is difficult. Without it the composition becomes too monochromatic ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- With a pop of yellow, the grand finale has begun here, where a rare American agave plant has begun to bloom for the first and only time in 80 years. "We just noticed some buds ...

They came north out of Mexico into the Desert Southwest with the Spanish, though nobody knows their actual point of origin. It’s because so many pre-Columbian cultures, including the Aztecs, utilized ...