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 ...

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 summer starts to push and most plants need a drink about every day, gardeners start to realize how hardy yuccas can be. Like most succulents, yuccas store water in their roots, trunks or leaves, ...

Red yucca grows with a blurred purple-flowering plant in the background - Nature's Charm/Shutterstock If you're in a dry climate, building out a rock garden, or trying the xeriscaping trend, a ...

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 ...

The Golden Sword yucca (Yucca filamentosa ‘Golden Sword’) is a native shrub that has a tropical look and feel but is hardy for Ohio. The clumping evergreen shrub has long, light medium green ...

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 ...

Q: When I eat at Hispanic restaurants, they serve yuca root. I this the same as ornamental yucca? Andy Segal, Atlanta A: They are not the same, although I sometimes see "yucca" on restaurant menus.

The giant yucca certainly lives up to its name: Yucca gigantea rises 30 feet high in ideal conditions, with white blossoms that push out from the center -- flor de izote, as the bloom is sometimes ...

Brush up against a yucca plant and you won’t forget it. The needle-like points on its long, narrow leaves can deliver memorable puncture wounds. Yuccas are relatives of aloes, hostas, asparagus, and ...

If you're in a dry climate, building out a rock garden, or trying the xeriscaping trend, a towering red yucca plant is a welcome addition. Red yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora) graces the garden with a ...