'Durango Delight' (Agave schidigera) is a compact agave type with dense leaves accented by curly white hairs. When it flowers, it sends up a red purple bloom on a stalk up to 10 feet tall. It's hardy ...

Agaves constitute one of the best- adapted groups of landscape plants for arid gardens. Their stiff, sword-shaped leaves and bold rosette pattern of growth make them ideal accent plants. Besides being ...

California faces one of the driest climates in the United States, making it an ideal location for harvesting a number of crops, including the natural agave nectar. Conventional watering practices ...

When Craig Reynolds of Sacramento planted a small plot of agave in Mexico to raise funds for a nonprofit in 2006, he had no idea it would spark a revolution in the California spirits scene. Now, ...

Mexican farmer Oliva Ramirez walks along a hillside filled with some 2,000 green agave plants she owns to create mezcal, deep in the mountain range of Oaxaca where generations of farmers have produced ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Growing agave that will be ...