A magnificent Agave plant in a sea-front garden in Tenby is turning heads as its flower stalk grows taller by the day.

The bloom also brings a little bit of sadness. 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 ...

All the more reason to visit the taberna in the flesh at their 370-acre agave plantation in the small Jaliscan pueblito of La Estancia de Landeros, San Sebastián del Oeste, and indulge at the source.

It’s a botanical event more than 17 years in the making at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium.That is where a desert-native Agave plant is blooming for the first—and only—time in its life.