Medium-sized succulents such as agave make an excellent filler ... foliage in a wide range of colors and pretty flowers, while some varieties of cacti have stunning blooms too.

Their beautiful flower grows between the leaves. Some species of agave plants (succulents not cacti) are also called Needle and Thread plants because the spiny tip and stringy leaf margin can be ...

As a group, succulents are easy to care for because they are drought-tolerant. They need water, but not it as often as do many other plants.

It's called Spiked: A Celebration of Agave, a sunny meet-up that will feature mezcal- and tequila-based libations, Papel ...

When an Agave plant becomes sufficiently mature ... a past president and Lifetime Member of the Monterey Bay Area Cactus & ...

Dubbed the "Bat Man of Mexico," Medellín convinced agave farmers to set aside part of their land to allow the plants there to flower and be pollinated. He also worked with a nonprofit to ...

Every spring, three species of nectar-feeding bats travel several hundred miles from Mexico into Arizona, New Mexico and ...

Tequila lovers will be interested to know about the South Coast Botanic Garden’s first-ever “Spiked: A Celebration of Agave,” ...

Many succulents can be found in local landscapes such as agave ... were selling Thanksgiving cacti, though many were mislabeled as Christmas cacti. The flower shape and stem segments are ...