Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A high priority is spacing pups to accommodate growth. Most mature agaves generate offsets (rhizomatous suckers) called “pups.” This is a vegetative or ...

While California’s persistent drought does not have a gardener’s attention these days, we should assume that it will return. Both drought and unusual rains could be indicators of climate change. The ...

This is the time of the year when agaves bloom. Let’s review how they propagate. Agaves are popular plants for gardeners because of their range of sizes, colors and leaf forms. I have been collecting ...

Succulent plants have been gaining in popularity for quite a few years now. On a recent trip we found a new hybrid cross between an agave and a Manfreda. but usually the foliage is a bit more wavy or ...

We are now entering the spring-to-autumn season when Agaves propagate. This is a timely opportunity to get familiar with this interesting plant genus. Traditionally, the genus Agave includes about 170 ...

It’s always interesting for us desert folks to hear New Englanders talk about agaves. A friend shared a recent post by Martha Stewart about how she grows the most climatically unsuitable plants using ...