Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden dark blue-lavender flowers

dark blue-lavender flowers

it makes a great spectator event as dusk approaches

it makes a 3' wide mat in one season but doesn't show tendencies to eat plants that it surrounds

Instead of the typical golden center

when we planted a patch without high expectations for survival

Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden dark blue-lavender flowersThe year was 2008 I was walking through the Home Depot parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, gazing at the median strip plantings of yellow edged Agave desmettiana, when I spied one plant that stood out from the others. The mutated plant had much wider than normal golden yellow margins surrounding each soft, fleshy green leaf. I returned home with a pup which produced a slowly offsetting specimen to 3' tall x 3' wide that we are pleased to finally