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Landscaping is an overly expansive topic for a newspaper column, so we will focus today’s column on alternative approaches to ...
SEQUIM — Isobel Johnston’s agave plant is about to go to new heights, blooming into a towering sight to see along Fifth Avenue in Sequim. A new stalk emerged recently from the nearly 30-year-old plant ...
For succulents that develop large pups without root systems, like aloe and some agave, you may need to use a sharp clean knife, or pruner to cut or pry the pup away from the mother plant.
A mature blue agave can produce leaves 4 to 5 feet long, spreading equally as wide. They are prone to producing “pups” around the mother plant that can develop over time into a huge colony.
After busting through a glass ceiling, Maya the agave plant is dying as dramatically as possible The iconic succulent’s 60-year reign over Chicago is coming to a bittersweet end. By Alex Schwartz ...
False agave, Furcraea foetida cv. Mediopicta, is a close relative to the agave. The succulent doesn’t have a trunk but produces dark green sword-shaped leaves from a central point known as a ...
For most garden plants, flowering is a sign of renewed life. That’s not the case with the succulent blue agave (Agave tequilana). Like other agaves, tequilana flowers only at the end of the ...
A mature blue agave can produce leaves 4 to 5 feet long, spreading equally as wide. They are prone to producing “pups” around the mother plant that can develop over time into a huge colony.
Agave Blue Glow is a pretty little succulent to tuck into corners or pots Dappled shade for Agave Blue Glow helps preserve the blue tones and prevents fading. Show Caption 1 of 2 ...
The Geerlingses’ plant is a descendant of an Agave americana that was already in the yard when the family first moved in, back in the early 1970s. Then, about 15 years later, it bloomed.