The lovely arching inflorescence of the Agave attenuata can be spotted in many gardens in Kona this month. This attractive plant is native to Mexico and is now the most commonly grown agave in Hawaii.

AGAVES are one of the most dramatic of Southern California’s landscape plants and certainly one of my personal favorites. Their sculptural quality is unequaled by any other plant, and I use them often ...

Oh sure, there is the thorny century plant in so many gardens, Agave americana misnamed because it actually blooms in about 10 years. Softer Agave attenuata is another easy and popular pick. You just ...

After providing remarkably striking foliage for many years, the biggest and boldest agaves bolt with spectacularly tall floral stalks that support horizontal pads of flowers. These stalks can bloom ...

It has been over a year since reviewing my agave collection, so today’s column checks out the development of selected specimens and compares the form variations of these popular plants. Agaves are ...

If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...

It only flowers once, producing a tall spike of yellow-white flowers on a curving stem which gives the plant its common name swan's neck agave. As soon as it flowers, the plant dies, but this is not ...