Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden deep blue foliage

deep blue foliage

adorned with obscenely large and floriferous pendulous spikes of creamy yellow flowers starting in early April (in NC)

when we planted a patch without high expectations for survival

Each leaf is edged with a wide green border that ages to gold

it makes a great spectator event as dusk approaches

Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden deep blue foliageThe 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