Not all plant stalks can be snapped with fingers, and some may cause skin irritation upon contact. Disinfect the clippers with 70% rubbing alcohol concentration.

That flowering stalk is the most spectacular trait shared by americana, harvadiana, and other agaves.They all have a penchant for flamboyant, tragically poetic deaths. For most of their days ...

This hardy native is a clump-forming perennial that sends up a stiff, unbranched stalk 2- to 3-feet high. Five-inch-long leaves form toward the bottom of the plant and become smaller as they ...

The plant's flower stalk has now outgrown the building's glass roof. At 15.25 feet tall, the plant required some creativity on the part of greenhouse manager, Chris Jackson, in order for it to ...

This hardy native is a clump-forming perennial that sends up a stiff, unbranched stalk 2- to 3-feet high. Five-inch-long leaves form toward the bottom of the plant and become smaller as they ...

“You can trigger the plant to grow a new stalk from the node that will bloom,” Kondrat says. “Pruning like this makes an orchid rebloom in 8 to 12 weeks about 50 percent of the time.” ...

The stalk may reach heights of 20 feet over the next two to three weeks. After that, the zoo said, the plant will die. However, it will leave behind “pups,” which are clone offshoots at its base.

Also, after the last flower has faded, remove all parts of the flowers, leaving the main stalk and leaves intact. Around Mother’s Day, select a sunny spot with good garden soil to plant your lily.

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.