If there’s one thing yucca plants don’t need, it’s excessive pampering. These plants naturally grow in the arid regions of the American Southwest, Mexico, and the Caribbean—so they can handle droughts ...

Keep your yuccas thriving for years ...

A red yucca plant growing near a sidewalk. - You Touch Pix of EuToch/Shutterstock It's easier than you think to diversify your landscaping while sticking to the same aesthetic that you know and love.

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, ...

If you're in a dry climate, building out a rock garden, or trying the xeriscaping trend, a towering red yucca plant is a welcome addition. Red yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora) graces the garden with a ...

The desert plant takes 10-15 years to grow to the size most buyers want, leading to an illicit underground plant trade. It’s another dry year in Texas, and as more people adopt xeriscaping, or drought ...

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.

It's easier than you think to diversify your landscaping while sticking to the same aesthetic that you know and love. If you live in a hot, dry area, one of the most popular plants is the red yucca ...