While you might be under the impression you need to live in a tropical climate to grow a yucca plant, they actually make for excellent indoor companions. A genus of more than 40 perennial plants, ...

The pressures of succeeding in a society set up to take advantage of the weak and disadvantaged can feel crushing. It’s hard not to feel like a cog in an unforgiving machine — work, errands, social ...

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 ...

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 ...

Central Ohio winters can be very gray, but you can add color to the garden with the ‘Golden Sword’ yucca (Yucca filamentosa ‘Golden Sword’). This hardy succulent plant has a mounded shape and is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...