Although yucca plants are considered extremely hardy and low-maintenance, there are some downsides to consider before you plant one in your yard.

Yucca flower gratin. Credit: Copyright 2016 Wendy Petty With its widely recognizable dagger-sharp leaves, the yucca plant (Yucca spp.), offers up a particularly tasty ...

There are endless varieties of Yucca plants, all belonging to the Agave family which are known for being easy to grow and care, wether in a pot or in a garden. There are more than 50 varieties, and ...

I adopted Lotus Moonflower from the Palm Springs ASPCA years ago. This silent white pit bull suddenly wasn't herself the other day. Her face had changed, the stop and bridge of her nose swelled up in ...

June is the month when agave and yucca plants flower and the phone and e-mail messages pile up as these succulents bloom across the county. There is much confusion about agave and yucca – which is ...

For going on 40 million years now, neither the yucca plant nor the yucca moth have been able to do without one another. The relationship is the classic instance of a concept referred to by biologists ...

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 ...

Question: I have a yucca that has finally matured enough to flower. Do I leave the flower stock on or cut it off once the flowers are dead? Normally we cut off the flower stalk as soon as the flowers ...

Insect larvae such as those of yucca moths that feed on small, patchily distributed food items often face an elevated risk of intraspecific competition or cannibalism. For this reason, ovipositing ...