Perhaps no single plant was more useful to the early day inhabitants on the High Plains than the spiky yucca, or soap weed, as it was commonly called. Pioneers learned from the Native American tribes ...

While you might be under the impression you need to live in a tropical climate to grow a yucca plant, they actually make for excellent indoor companions. A genus of more than 40 perennial plants, ...

A red yucca plant growing near a sidewalk. - You Touch Pix of EuToch/Shutterstock It's easier than you think to diversify your landscaping while sticking to the same aesthetic that you know and love.

Red yucca grows with a blurred purple-flowering plant in the background - Nature's Charm/Shutterstock If you're in a dry climate, building out a rock garden, or trying the xeriscaping trend, a ...

From the archive: This story originally published in The Desert Sun in 2019. On this south-facing slope in Morongo Valley there is a forest of very old Yucca schidigera, known as the Mojave yucca.