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Agave plants are harvested by jimadors, who pass their knowledge down through apprenticeships. The heart of the plant is the part used to make tequila. (If you need a visual, think of an artichoke.) ...

Agave takes little water but presents other challenges. The plant typically takes at least seven years to grow and is tough to harvest, and a mature plant can weigh hundreds of pounds.

MURRIETA, Calif. -- Leo Ortega started growing spiky blue agave plants on the arid hillsides around his Southern California home because his wife liked the way they looked.

Agave plants grow by the home of Leo Ortega and his wife, in Murrieta, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Ortega started growing blue agave plants on the hillsides of his Southern California home ...

The plant will soon die. “Agave plants are noble,” said Yessica Viridiana Fernandez Galicia, research collaborator at the University of California Davis, Water Management Lab.

SEQUIM — Isobel Johnston’s agave plant is about to go to new heights, blooming into a towering sight to see along Fifth Avenue in Sequim. A new stalk emerged recently from the nearly 30-year-old plant ...

SEQUIM — It took five Master Gardeners two hours and one trailer load to remove the popular agave plant that’s been at the corner of North Fifth Avenue and West Spruce Street for nearly 30 years.

Once the agave finish flowering, the plants will begin to shrivel and die—this colorful event marks the end of their decades-spanning lives. But Clark and his team are already planning to grow new ...

Two agave plants are fully flowering at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus greenhouse, and the rare bloom won’t last for long. The two spiky plants have become a main attraction ...