The Agave ovatifolia succulent has been in the garden for around 10 years and it’s finally in bloom. These plants are ...

It's the beginning of the end for a well-known succulent at the Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden, but before the plant dies it is going to go out with a bloom instead of a bang. The agave ...

Survival secrets from a desert icon, revealing nature’s strategies for enduring and thriving in the harshest environments.

shoot up from agave plants at the end of their life cycle after 10 or 15 or 20-plus years—a last gasp at immortality. Soon the quiotes will bloom with tiny flowers, and then the lesser long ...

The sap of agave plants, which is toxic to people if it's not cooked, is harvested from the heart of the plant. It's then extracted, filtered, and heated to create the product sold in stores.

He was not the first to plant agave, but he has planted the most so far — roughly 400,000 plants on 340 acres. “We’re in a highly productive area,” Woolf told me last week. “We have ...

Could this be the right crop at the right time?’” Stuart Woollf of Woolf Farming shows off some of the agave plants the company has planted on about 340 acres of land near Huron. Photographed ...

That's where he planted his agave in neat rows a couple of years ago. While the plants are not mature yet, they've grown enough that their pointed, outstretched leaves can brush his hip when he ...

We found some small options if you want to be subtle, like succulents and an agave plant — in general, plants that naturally have firm, waxy leaves make good faux foliage candidates, so ...

According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS), mezcal sales have increased by double digits year-over-year, reflecting its rising popularity. Younger consumers ...

Schilling, a local horticulturalist who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom ... plants known for their resilience — including saguaro cacti and agave.