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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

Agave, as you probably know, thrive best in desert conditions. It is native to Arizona, New Mexico and northern Mexico. Hot sun and drought tolerant.

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 ...

Visit Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma to witness the once-in-decades bloom of a Agave parryi var. truncata. It’s the only time the nine-foot tall plant will bloom.

Agaves, which are native to Mexico, Southern United States, or South America, grow well in the Bay Area’s climate.

Clemons said the agave plants that are about 10 years old were donated to the garden. One of the plants has completed the bloom process and its long petals are beginning to droop and dry up.

Miguel Cuevas, a gardening enthusiast from Palmdale, was surprised to find out the unusual, 30-foot-tall “tree” emerging from an agave plant in his yard was actually the rare, once in its ...

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.