My beautiful Agave garden has some flowers and I have been waiting patiently anticipating the flowers BUT...........................I then researched and found out .............
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form rosettes of large, often fleshy leaves, that can have fiercely toothed edges and long spines at the tips. The cream to chrome yellow flowers are borne in clusters on tall branching stems. While flower stems can be spectacular both in size and color, agave rosettes are monocarpic (dying after flowering) though most species produce offsets or pups beforehand. Species with only a few very large rosettes, such as Agave americana, are grown mainly for their foliage and form.
Now I am very sad it is a big patch to fill in my garden.....
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| It started like this for a few weeks |
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| Its very slow at opening the buds ....now I know why... |
3 comments:
How sad that you will probably lose your agave. Make th most of the flowers while you can.
That is a bit sad, enjoy them while they flower.
the flowering last for awhile.......one of my cards is agave flower..........the lady who owned it said that yes they do die after flowering but hers had babies shooting at the base..........the flowers were atleast 1/2 way or more long her flower stem..........enjoy the glorious beauty as it develops......
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