AGAVE

This form is more compact and hardier than americana   9cm pot

Shown here in 9cm pot

In 21cm pot

stiff short  sword shape leaves with cream colored margins

This very large and spectacular Agave grows in the wet cloud forests in the mountains of central Oaxaca, Mexico, around 3100 m. The few, stiff, very wide, dark bluish green leaves have nearly smooth margins, some plants have small, purplish teeth. It appears not to have  been present in cultivation, UNTIL NOW! although doublessly suited for cooler, humid climates, both in full sun or shade.

White agave

A large Agave that forms a stunning rosette, to 4 m (13 ft.) wide, with huge, bluish-gray green leaves with attractive reddish thorns. It is one of the largest Agave, native to Oaxaca, Mexico, but known only from cultivation, not from the wild. It does best in a warm temperate climate, where it needs ample room and will appreciate plenty of water in summer. Agave atrovirens is fermented into pulque and roasted and distilled to make mezcal.

Agave bracteosa "Squid Agave". Quite resistant to UK wet and cold.

Grows to about 2 feet across. Unusually for agaves, it has leaves without spines/thorns so safe for children/near pathways.

In the wild it grows in cracks in vertical limestone cliffs, so it is ideal for planting in walls.

9cm pots Safe to minus 5deg C

9cm pot

9cm pots

A small to medium-sized agave from high altitude in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, where it grows between 1400 and 2200 m (4500 and 7500 ft.) elevation in open oak or pine woodland. It forms a compact rosette of very beautiful, broad, blue grey leaves.