The South Coast Botanic Garden is celebrating all things agave. The garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, debuted a new event last week dubbed “Spiked: A Celebration of ...

Walnut Creek’s Ruth Bancroft is a national authority on drought-resistant gardening. Twice a month, she and her staff share their knowledge with readers. When people think of an Agave, they usually ...

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 ...

The South Coast Botanic Garden will host a two-weekend exploration of the importance of agave, its cultural roots and rich history beginning Saturday, March 22. “Spiked: A Celebration of Agave” will ...

In the hills of Templeton a unique and rare garden has been sown that really should be growing somewhere in the desert. Jim Harlow has created a wonderland of over 100 species of agave — and that ...

Agave salmiana is the biggest, baddest species in the desert garden. Massive and dark green, their juvenile form offers no clue to the ultimate immensity of this big dude. He stands on the lower ...

An 80-year-old American Agave that is currently growing at a rate of 5-6 inches a day inside the Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory in Ann Arbor. The Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory ...

This agave variety makes a dramatic statement in a garden, reaching eight feet in height. It is a beautiful blue-green, with hooked spines along the edge of its leaves and a sharp spike at the tip of ...

David Price waited nearly three decades for an agave plant at Bok Tower Gardens to reach its climax of growth. A hailstorm prematurely felled the plant’s 35-foot bloom stalk, offering a reminder that ...

Springtime will be off to a sippable, snackable, and sunshiny start at South Coast Botanic Garden, the leafy home to a new celebration. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Make ...