Garden Pic Wednesday: Giant Agave!
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 pla...