Agave americanais perhaps the most common of all Agave , but this white variegate form is specially sweet . There are many dead ringer , white white stripes , chickenhearted stripes or no grade insignia , and all grow bombastic so plan on a bombastic , heavy bath which you will want to drag into the house during the winter , if you live in region with abstruse frosts or soaked C. P. Snow . Many Agaves can handle some teetotal , freezing weather , but due north of Atlanta , they are best maturate as house plants or glasshouse specimen which expend the summer , outdoors .
Agave ‘ Meat Hook ’ is competently named . This is one form which I now have to keep gamy on a shelf since we have a puppy exploring the garden .
Many attractive new Nipponese cultivars are being introduced , liek this Agave schidigera ‘ Shira ito no Ohi ’ , or Queen of White Thread Century Plant . This vivid little Agave is tiresome growing , and smaller than most forms , making it an excellent house plant life for a sunny exposure , or for a small terrace or porch . In a assemblage , these smaller more coloured Agave add both dimension and grain not set up in the larger forms .
Agave scabra ssp . scabraThis un nominate form of a Mexican species has acantha like sharks teeth . This is one of the new species inclose , reportedly more hardy than other species , since it was collected at high elevation in the northern mountains of Mexico . For us , it is still an winter legal tender diversity .
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