What do a yucca tree, a tangerine tree and a hellebore have in common? Not much, really, except that, if you live in the San Fernando Valley, you can grow all three of them in your own backyard. Yucca ...

Last spring I photographed the amazing bloom of yucca species all over the high desert. Locals said it was such a dry winter the plants were trying to produce a bumper crop of seed to ensure the ...

The giant yucca certainly lives up to its name: Yucca gigantea rises 30 feet high in ideal conditions, with white blossoms that push out from the center -- flor de izote, as the bloom is sometimes ...

Although the yucca is native to diverse areas of the Americas, we tend to associate it with deserts and sterile landscapes. But that isn?t really fair to this very interesting genus of plants, though ...

What do a yucca tree, a tangerine tree and a hellebore have in common? Not much, really, except that, if you live in the San Fernando Valley, you can grow all three of them in your own backyard. Yucca ...