When yucca is blooming in late spring through early- to mid-summer, the plant looks very diplomatic in a landscape. The flowers are bell-shaped, fragrant and creamy white, stacked up the sides of a ...

Outdoor yuccas make a striking display in any yard with their abundance of long, thin, spiky leaves spreading out across flower beds. If you are looking for structural plants for your borders, yuccas ...

Have you ever wondered why some businesses in Victoria have lovely landscaped properties and others do not? A very thoughtful city council years past enacted an ordinance that required all newly ...

New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...

The soaptree yucca, Yucca elata, is a slow-growing native plant that is well-worth waiting for. It is native to our region and the Chihuahuan desert, as well as northern Mexico. It’s very ...

On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca. These very large plants are up to five hundred years old with multiple, tall ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Last week, Denver Water announced a drought watch and an ominous advisory that continued dry weather could lead to mandatory water restrictions. “Drought” is ...

The desert plant takes 10-15 years to grow to the size most buyers want, leading to an illicit underground plant trade. It’s another dry year in Texas, and as more people adopt xeriscaping, or drought ...

Hoven Riley knew money was tight at his family’s West Texas cotton farm the year his mom asked him to go outside and dig up a yucca elata to use as a Christmas tree. The species, also known as the ...