All week, we’re revisiting the most popular stories of 2025, including this one from March. The humble hummingbird has always been a pollinator favorite among gardeners, but lately…
Read more The Best Plants to Attract Hummingbirds to Your GardenYucca rostrata Drought tolerant, cold hardy, and popular with wildlife of all shapes and sizes, the beaked or big bend yucca (Yucca rostrata) is easy to love. In…
Read more How to Grow and Care for Beaked (Big Bend) Yucca2. Environmental Damage Not all black spots are caused by pathogens. Abiotic stress, particularly extreme cold, sudden temperature swings, or intense sun, can damage yucca leaves. Chilling injury…
Read more Black Spots on Yucca Plants: Five Causes and SolutionsYucca filamentosa Adam’s needle is a striking and stately ornamental succulent, with long, sword-like foliage and bold flower stalks topped with showy panicles of creamy, bell-shaped flowers. These…
Read more How to Grow Adam’s Needle Yucca Plants | Gardener’s PathYucca is a genus of popular ornamental perennials, grown indoors and out for their impressive, statuesque forms, handsome foliage, and exuberant flower spikes. And you can quickly increase…
Read more How to Propagate Yucca Plants | Gardener’s PathJapanese Anemone, A. hupehensis: “Daughter of the Wind” There’s a nondescript, partially shaded corner of my garden that is frankly rather dull until finally it comes into its…
Read more Gardening 101: Japanese Anemones – GardenistaYour next summer pickling adventure awaits. Yucca fruit pickles are made from the young, green seed pods of yucca plants. They just need to be soaked, peeled, and…
Read more Yucca Fruit Pickles: How to Prepare the Edible Seed PodsWhat happens when a Japanese-style garden meets the southern California desert? For the very Zen results, let’s visit a serene gravel courtyard that landscape architecture firm Terremoto designed…
Read more Landscape Architecture Design for a Desert Climate: A Zen Garden in Santa Monica
