What: Yucca flaccida ‘Golden Sword’, commonly called Golden Sword variegated yucca, is an evergreen shrub that forms a rosette of bold, arching, striped leaves. It provides strong structural relief to ...

Once upon a time when the central-Pennsylvania landscape was routinely snow-covered all winter long, about the only thing green sticking out above the sea of white were evergreen shrubs and trees. But ...

Plant name: Soft leaf yucca (Yucca recurvifolia). Type of plant: Succulent perennial. Description: The yucca just doesn't look right in a woodland setting, but it's a standby for those who appreciate ...

At its purest, gardening is about expressing yourself by using other life forms. Sometimes plants conform to your vision; often they do not. If your mental image of a planting design is blurry at its ...

Most plants have fairly pleasant names, such as love-in-a-mist, moonflower, glory-of-the-snow, and sweet william. Then there are those with such disgusting or horrid names – bladder fumitory comes to ...