Go ahead and tell me you can resist agave Blue Glow — the dwarf, well-behaved, barely prickly (snip the tips with scissors if you worry) succulent that you can tuck into all sorts of garden settings.

Tourists may snap pictures of palms, but here in Southern California, the backbone of many gardens is none other than the agave. Before this hardy plant flowers and dies, it can deliver years of ...

WHEN the record-cold temperatures hit in January, the questions to Barbara Eisenstein, horticulture outreach coordinator for Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, started rolling in: My agave ...

The more Agaves I discover, the more I feel they represent the theatrical spirit of the desert. With colors ranging from silver and blue to red and green, in stripes and textures, with teeth and hair, ...