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Agave stricta flowering in a West Midlands garden
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I don't know how common an occurrence this may be but I understand it's
quite unusual. I would like to let the gardening community know should there be any people with a particular interest in Agave sp. in the UK and abroad.
The plant is indigenous to Mexico and is usually kept indoors. My specimen of Agave stricta (it's quite like a porcupine in structure and just as dangerous), purchased some twenty years ago at the end of a flower show at the N.E.C. has decided to put up a flower spike. It has lived in the front garden of my home in Solihull since planting defying the rains, frosts and snows of winter which should have killed it off years ago.
The spike is some 7.5ft. tall and the flowers are just beginning to open. Is flowering of this species in ithese circumstances in the UK unusual or a common occurrence? I would like to know. I imagine the plant will die after flowering so this is intended as a record of its existence and achievement in these latitudes. I am advised it may put out small "rosettes" (small plants) from the base but there is no evidence of such as yet.
Best wishes,
Jennifer Bruce
quite unusual. I would like to let the gardening community know should there be any people with a particular interest in Agave sp. in the UK and abroad. The plant is indigenous to Mexico and is usually kept indoors. My specimen of Agave stricta (it's quite like a porcupine in structure and just as dangerous), purchased some twenty years ago at the end of a flower show at the N.E.C. has decided to put up a flower spike. It has lived in the front garden of my home in Solihull since planting defying the rains, frosts and snows of winter which should have killed it off years ago.
The spike is some 7.5ft. tall and the flowers are just beginning to open. Is flowering of this species in ithese circumstances in the UK unusual or a common occurrence? I would like to know. I imagine the plant will die after flowering so this is intended as a record of its existence and achievement in these latitudes. I am advised it may put out small "rosettes" (small plants) from the base but there is no evidence of such as yet.
Best wishes,
Jennifer Bruce
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