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Agave plant care and growing tips

Agave's spiky leaves make it a popular drought-tolerant plant. Here's how to care for an agave plant in your container garden ...
Our trainees are measuring our #Agave flower spike on a daily basis. Y'day it grew 12.4cm in 24hrs ! Will it be going thru the roof of our Arid House?! # ...
Colorado is experiencing an extraordinary bloom this season — and it’s not just wildflowers. Two agave plants are fully flowering at the University of Colorado’s Boulder campus greenhouse, and the ...
Question: Is the life of an agave lengthened if its flower stalk is cut off early? I noticed that the blue tequila agave farmers in Mexico keep them trimmed off. — Tom Gearhart, Valley Village Answer: ...
If you want a garden that you will never, ever need to water, consider agaves. There are more than a hundred agave species and varieties available to gardeners in Southern California, so you will have ...
American agave plants are known for their fairly fatalistic life cycles: live, die, repeat. After blooming, the plants are expected to die shortly thereafter, usually leaving behind clones of ...
After nearly 30 years of waiting, two agave plants on the CU Boulder campus are having their moment in the sun. Rare Agave Bloom https://youtu.be/B7lZ9xU_9mo The ...