Garden Pic Wednesday: Giant Agave!

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Around the corner from us, a neighbor has a couple Giant Agave plants. I've been waiting for them to bloom, so I could photograph their unique flower head up close.
Finally one of them is putting up a bloom stalk.
Giant Agave are huge.
Just to give you perspective on size, I had Hubby stand next to one. He's 5-8.
That giant asparagus-looking stalk behind him is the flower stem. 
It's thick as a flag pole and will rise 16 to 20 feet before it blooms.



Giant Agave are fairly common around here. They have about a 10 year lifespan and bloom around the 10th year, then they die. They pup new ones around the base like an Aloe.

I think they're unique looking, but to just stick one in a woodsy pine tree landscape doesn't make sense to me. I don't care for them, but if I were going to have a Giant Agave, I'd want to set up a corner as as in more of a desert landscape with rocks and pebbles and Yucca and succulents or a mix of more tropical plants.

Here's some good desert landscape examples I found in Pinterest with large agaves:




The Giant Agave flower head is very unique looking and I'm looking forward to photographing and sharing it sometime in the next few weeks!

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aestamary said…
They’re beautiful.
May 2, 2018, 3:11:00 PM

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