All Plants

Fosteriana var robustior! Traveling in the state of Parana, Brazil, we came across this sensational Dyckia. We were impressed by the many flower spikes adorned with numerous orange flowers. Plants in habitat tend to be compose... More

Huajillo This light, airy, multitrunked tree is a perfect companion to cactus and agaves in the dry garden. The fern-like foliage gives a delicate soft texture when everything else is rigid and structured. In ... More

Wright acacia! A large shrub to small tree notable for the blue-gray color of its delicate compound foliage. It is open growing with few widely spaced horizontally spreading branches which provide dappled light. The... More

Wild Aechmea recurvata var. benrathii! On our trip to southern Brazil we found this variety growing in coastal areas, mainly amongst rocks and boulders. The tight, squatty rosettes seemed perfectly content in full sun and subject to consta... More

Hardy A. americana variegate! We got this Agave americana variegate, having blue-green leaves with a cream edge, from Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery. He originally got it from a customer in Roanoke, VA. The plant looks simil... More

Silver select! This selection of A. americana var. protoamericana was selected because of the silver coloration to the leaves, the pronounced teating of the leaf margins and its compact size. The silver leaves and u... More

Supreme urn plant! Highly-prized since Victorian times for container cultivation. The slow growing, perfectly formed rosettes are boldly striped with white down the center of each leaf, while the borders are blue-green.... More

Silver Surfer Agave! Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery made this fine Agave selection out of a batch of seedlings he grew from seed we sent him years ago. This plant grows in form much like many A. americana var. ameri... More

Fox-tail Agave! Soft, luscious, voluptuous are all adjectives that come to mind when describing this handsome succulent. This un-agave-like plant has soft, glaucous, spineless leaves that unfold creating a beautiful ... More

Octopi! A spineless and toothless agave that resembles a group of octopi laying amongst the boulders. The 24 in. wide rosettes of bright-green leaves offset to form colonies in their native habitat clinging t... More

Recalling calamar! Pat McNeal chose this non-clumping form to be the first of the Agave bracteosa's to be tissue cultured. The cultivar name 'Calamar' implies a form more marine-like than plant-like. In its native habit... More

Chiapas Agave! This relative of Agave celsii from the state of Chiapas, MX is superficially similar in appearance to it, but the leaves tend to be broader and stouter. The teeth on the margins of the leaves are also... More

Another Soap Agave! According to Gentry’s “Agaves of Continental North America”, Agave chrysoglossa is closely related to Agave vilmoriniana but the leaves are flatter and straighter and the inflorescence is non-bu... More

- An attractive plant with long, narrow leaves and long filifers that form a single rosette. Found just above the Pacific coastline in places with high-tide salt spray. As the name suggests, it is nativ... More

Dwarf Cowhorn! If you love Agave bovicornuta but don't have the space then this smaller cousin is an excellent alternative. This plant has nice dark colored teeth that contrast well with the light green leaves. The ... More

Golden highlights! A highly ornamental form that is variegated in creamy yellow bands along the leaf margins. The variegation is especially effective on this plant because of its cultural need for a shady area--accentin... More

This plant is a member of the Marginatae Group of Agaves, which also includes species like A. lophantha, A lechuguilla, A. funkiana and A. xylonacantha. I mention its familial relatives so that people... More

Huge green goblet! In an area in Mexico near the Sierra Chiquita, where all agaves are gray-green, we noticed a decidedly different plant. This lone agave was dark-green and its foliage, instead of sprawling in every di... More

This somewhat small agave is native to the grama grasslands in the states of Chihuahua and Durango, Mexico at elevations around 3000' to 5000'. The plant has an open habit with comparatively few leave... More

The Japanese cultivar name for this plant, 'Hakuro Shiro Fukurin', is quite a tongue twister and just might make you blush but its English translation, " frosty white margin " is quite benign. The pla... More

Green explosion! This rare and, in our opinion, most beautiful agave can be grown in a pot. The flexible, bright-green, pencil-like foliage is produced in such profusion that it becomes an explosion in green. With tim... More

In the late 1990's when John Fairey and I were making regular treks into Mexico, I spotted this heavily armed selection in a huge colony of Agave gentryi. It made a treacherous groundcover under the o... More

Guadalajara Agave! A small, tight rosette of blue-gray leaves with pronounced nipples along the leaf edge with small spines embedded in them that become more numerous and larger toward the leaf tip. Endemic to a small a... More

Papery tiger! The botanist Lemaire, who originally described this plant, gave it the specific name horrida because he though the plant was repulsive. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and we think it is one of t... More