Agave patonii is a wonderfully compact Agave with the most fabulous olive-green-grey foliage and dark burgundy-brown spines. Â This is an excellent Agave for container growing owing to the compact habit, reaching up to only 12-15cm. Â Do ensure you keep this variety frost free over the colder months.
Agave gentryi is a wonderful variety originating in North Eastern Mexico where it can be found on mountain slopes. Beautiful reddish spines run along each leaf with a strong similarly coloured terminal spine. The overall colour too is impressive, a deep almost glossy blue-grey green. Â Each plant reaches a height and diameter of around 120cm[…]
Agave ovatifolium ‘Vanzie’ is an exciting new varient of well known the ‘Whales Tongue Agave’ . With broad grey – green leaves that are slightly wavy and have faint streaking along their length. Agave ovatifolium ‘Vanzie’ is highly ornamental and architectural in fact once seen as a mature specimen I’d be amazed if you didn’t[…]
Agave bracteosa ‘Calamar’ known as the ‘Squid Agave’ is a rare agave originating from Mexico in the Coahuilan Desert where it grows on limestone cliffs between 3,000 and 5,500 feet high. Agave bracteosa  ‘Calamar’ differs from the species by have a more pronounced arching arching habit giving a stronger impression of squid or octopus tentacles the narrow[…]
Agave americana ‘Variegata’ the most obvious instantly recognisable variegated agave, naturalised throughout the Mediterranean often along roadsides and waste ground where it can reach impressive sizes. The long narrow bluish grey and yellow variegated leaves reaching 150cm or more long, whilst the flower spikes reach for the sky 3-4m high. Quite variable in habit but[…]
Agave parrasana ‘Meat Claw’ is ferocious selection of the ever popular ‘Cabbage Head Agave’ one of the most outstanding smaller agave species worth growing outdoors here in the U.K. The densely packed leaves are armed with raised hooked thorns along each the leaf edge with a long terminal spine at the tip which when young[…]
Agave ovatifolia ‘Emerald’ is a selection of the desirable ‘Whales Tongue Agave’ that shows a more greenish colour to its broad chunky leaves whilst maintaining the dense flower bud like stance so typical of this gorgeous group of agaves. As with many of the agave varieties available to us in recent years the exact parentage[…]
Agave parryi var. truncata known as the ‘Artichoke Agave’ due to its very dense and compact leaf formation creating the giant flower bud like appearance. Like all members of the parryi family the artichoke agave naturally grows on mountain slopes where winters are often cold and damp which, is great news for us gardeners here[…]
Agave ferdinandi-regis is a once very rare and sought after agave commonly known as the ‘King of Agaves’ with a distinct compact usually no more than 45cm spread habit the open rosettes formed with beautiful sturdy triangular dark bluey-green thornless leaves which are edged with a reddish colour and tipped sharp red spine. To add[…]
Agave nigra is a highly ornamental smaller growing agave with an open habit and chunky oblong thornless blue grey leaves tipped with a purple black thorn. Quite distinct from most other agaves Agave nigra is hybrid form, the parentage generally accepted to be a cross between  Agave scabra and Agave victoriae-reginae and as such shows typical[…]
