Go ahead and tell me you can resist agave Blue Glow — the dwarf, well-behaved, barely prickly (snip the tips with scissors if you worry) succulent that you can tuck into all sorts of garden settings.

A decade ago, the tequila industry was pummelled by plant diseases. Rex Dalton meets the scientists working to keep the blue agave diverse enough to survive. For centuries, artisans working in the ...

Many associate tequila with lime wedges, salt and parties. But the popular drink also has a negative impact on biodiversity, both on the blue agave from which it is made and, perhaps more unexpectedly ...

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. A decade later, his property is now dotted with ...

A little patch of Mexico in the ground near Atherton, in Far North Queensland, is about to get much bigger. Blue agave — which is the base ingredient for tequila — is currently grown on a commercial ...