Yucca linearifolia (to 4 feet tall) and Yucca rostrata (to 10 feet tall) are stunning, slow-growing small trees with very thin leaves that develop into massive clumps on the ends of thatched ...

Frank Wattles won some allies this week in his battle to preserve a cluster of yucca trees standing near his home on a Manhattan Beach walk street. Prompted by a nearby landowner’s complaint ...

These trees, which seem so out-of-place in this desert landscape, can grow up to 75 feet (23 m) in height and weigh as much as 3 tons (nearly 3,000 kilograms).

From inside the floor-to-ceiling glass walls, you can see towering boulder formations, Joshua and yucca trees, scrub oaks and pinyon pines – a transcendent melding of mountain- and desert-scapes.

The four yucca trees have guarded Frank Wattles’ Spanish-style Manhattan Beach home for almost the whole 44 years he’s owned it. With their spiky leaves and narrow trunks reaching in di… ...

In west-central Arizona, within the Sonoran Desert, a fourth species of yucca is sympatric with the Joshua tree. Known as soaptree yucca (Yucca elata) because a sudsy cleansing agent was once ...

While Yucca plants are striking in their shape, they're easily customizable for your environment, either as a stand-alone plant in a small garden. Or, if you're working with a larger space, as in ...