Across the globe, certain flowers exhibit the rare phenomenon of blooming only once in their lifetime or infrequently. These extraordinary blooms, including the corpse flower and the jade vine, ...

ANN ARBOR, MIch. -- It's still growing, and growing, and growing. Like the beanstalk from the famous fable, the stalk of an 80-year-old American agave plant at the University of Michigan is so ...

Master gardener Leimone Waite answers readers’ questions about plants, garden tools and their use, and gardening techniques.

A pair of agave attenuate 'Nova' in the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden recently bloomed. This is the first time the two large rosette succulents are flowering in nearly a decade.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life ...

That somewhat dubious honor belongs to a species called blue agave (Agave azul). Instead, this bloom is a testament to the power of patience. A former professor emeritus of linguistics named Allan ...

Lisa Negri celebrated the SummerHome Garden's agave plant that typically blooms once every 20 years.

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die seems poised to do just that. Housed at the University of the Michigan since 1934, the plant has grown so rapidly since the ...

Agave at Oakland neighborhood stands at 27 feet as it undergoes death bloom 02:46. The life cycle of a massive agave plant in an Oakland neighborhood is coming to an end, and in death, it is ...

The plants, which adorn an outdoor garden near the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology greenhouse on 30th Street, have started to bloom—something these succulents do only once in their ...

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life.