SPRING HILL — Local Hernando and Brooksville Garden Club member Connie Hopkins is preparing to say goodbye to a longtime ...

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

Once the agave flowers, a death bloom is inevitable, and nothing can be done to stop it. Typically, it takes around 10 to 15 years for the agave to bloom.

After reaching the full bloom the plant will slowly die, and it cannot be harvested for a secondary purpose. Agave is a member of the asparagus family, for the Asparagaceae, and there are 200 ...

Giant agave in Oakland neighborhood drawing attention as it undergoes death bloom KPIX via CNN Newsource The life cycle of a massive plant in an Oakland neighborhood is coming to an end ...

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.

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com 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 ...

Those may bloom again in about 20 years. “To see one bloom in the Pacific Northwest is a botanical unicorn event,” said the zoo’s lead horticulturist, Bryon Jones.

The celebration, which premiered on Saturday, March 22, also features Lancaster farmer Steve Sanchez, host of the “Agave & Cactus Talk” podcast, hosting an agave pit roasting demonstration.

No matter which holiday cactus you own, these plants provide a pop of color inside the home at a time of the year when few other plants are in bloom, so enjoy the color whether it arrives around ...