Container Your Agaves
Here are 10 agaves that look wonderful in a container:
• Agave americans ‘Mediopicta Alba’: Also called tuxedo agave. Has an upright, fountain-shaped silhouette and cream-striped, sort of clue-gray hue to the leaves.
• Agave angustifolia var. marginata: Bladelike leaves are striped lengthwise with white and green.
• Agave attenuata: Resembles a large rose with tapered, soft green leaves.
• Agave ‘Blue Glow’: The color of the leaves are a blue-green faintly streaked gray. Thin red leaf margins around the leaves edges.
• Agave bovicornuta: Green with thorns which are very small and red in color. They have patterns with white scalloped indentations left by other leaves before they unfurled.
• Agave filifera: Dark green leaves have a white filaments that detach from the leaf margins and curl.
• Agave Gemini flora: A pincushion agave of sorts that forms whorls of dense, compact rosettes.
• Agave potato rum: Blue-gray leaves have orange prickles along the edges and terminal spines that twist up.
• Agave ‘Sharkskin’: Thick, gunmetal-gray in color, sandpaper sort of texture leaves give the plants a sculptural appeal.
• Agave victoriae-reginae: A cold-hardy agave named after Queen Victoria. It has dark green, wedge-shaped leaves elegantly outlines in white.
Be sure that you follow these steps when you bring your agave indoors:
1. Soil: Grow potted agaves in fast-draining cactus medium, or make your own mix by combining two parts regular potting mix with one part pumice or perlite.
2. Water: In the fall, bring frost-tender agaves indoors. Keep the temperature better 55 and 70 degrees and water them frequently.
3. Light: Give indoor agaves as much bright light and air circulation as possible.
4. Maintain them: Because agaves grow slowly make sure they have plenty of room and the soil is always fresh and loose and doesn’t get hard.
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