While you might be under the impression you need to live in a tropical climate to grow a yucca plant, they actually make for excellent indoor companions. A genus of more than 40 perennial plants, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What do a yucca tree, a tangerine tree and a hellebore have in common? Not much, really, except that, if you live in the San Fernando Valley, you can grow all three of them in your own backyard. Yucca ...

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 ...

Researcher Chris Smith and field assistant Candace Fallon introduce Yucca moths to blooms on Joshua trees in the Mojave desert during research, Apr. 07. This iconic plant of the Mojave Desert also ...

Q: Back in March, you wrote about growing avocados from seed and I was fascinated with your answer. I then tried to grow two Persea americana avocado from seeds with the toothpick method, and I was ...

Note: This story is intended to be listened to. Text associated below is simply a transcript of the audio but does include some great visuals. “My name is Kathryn Busby and I’m a wildlife biologist ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Feb., 2010), pp. 243-250 (8 pages) Extreme climate events are transforming plant communities in the desert Southwest of the United States. Abundant ...