Many of us have heard of Joshua Tree National Park with its spiky desert trees silhouetted against a painted sunset sky, ...

If you're bored of traditional flowering plants to add summer or fall color to your garden, this hardy North American native ...

Yucca is a genus of over 40 perennial plants, shrubs, and trees. A few are grown as houseplants, including Yucca gigantea ...

Yuccas are one of the most low-maintenance plants around. Here's how to care for your yucca plant like a pro, from lighting needs to watering requirements. Yucca plants are pretty cool. They’re known ...

Yucca plants aren’t picky but proper soil conditions are essential for the plant to thrive. You don’t have to worry much ...

Variegated yucca, Yucca filamentosa “Color Guard”: This variegated evergreen shrub is grown for its architectural quality, as its striped, sharp-tipped, sword-shaped leaves stand out in any border or ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.

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 ...

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 ...

Q. I have a yucca tree that is 5-6 years old. What was a small plant has become a mature tree. I transplanted my yucca to a larger pot last summer. There was a significant explosion in growth. If you ...