New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of adaptation and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. red yucca flower stalk with flowers still in bloom and one seed pod already formed. - Leslie Quiroz/Getty Images Hesperaloe ...

Yucca flower gratin. Credit: Copyright 2016 Wendy Petty With its widely recognizable dagger-sharp leaves, the yucca plant (Yucca spp.), offers up a particularly tasty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just like we have the American flag and individual U.S. state flags, states also have their own state flowers. (The national ...

As we become accustomed to drought, the transformation of our gardens seems inevitable. During the past week, I received photos of two plants that are providing a spectacular flower show in the midst ...

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 ...

Question: I have a yucca that has finally matured enough to flower. Do I leave the flower stock on or cut it off once the flowers are dead? Normally we cut off the flower stalk as soon as the flowers ...