Posted by Darren Garrison on July 7, 2007, 12:41 pm
>Something like this?
>http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/60610/
>or one of these?
>http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Fall/page3.html
Thanks for the links, judging from the size (huge) and the need to be cold
hardy, it is probably one of these:
http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Fall/Detail/05008.html
Pretty cheap, too.
Posted by Darren Garrison on July 11, 2007, 4:04 pm
>Here in the Washington, DC area (zone 7), some kind of agaves or
>yuccas are moderately common, including in the house we bought. We
>have a nice big clump of three or so plants. They send up a nice
>flower spike with white flowers (especially striking at night). Ours
>does not die after flowering (some do, although they might send out
>additional plants first). But I don't know what species are most
Followup question-- I ordered a couple of Agave_americana, a kind that is
supposed to die after flowering. If mine do settle in and grow, can pruning
flower stalks when they start to grow keep the plant alive, or would it die
anyway?
Posted by beecrofter on July 11, 2007, 4:28 pm
> Hoping for an id even though I don't have a picture. I saw one once on a
garden
> show shown from North Carolina, so I thought it MIGHT be hardy here in the
upper
> part of South Carolina. But this week I happened to drive by a huge one in
> somebody's yard, so obviously it is hardy for here.
> It is a succulent, looks more or less like an Aloe vera, but it is several feet
> tall and around. It looks like it has a coating of powdered sugar. And it is
a
> species that can tolerate zone 7 winters. Any ideas? I want one of those
> suckers.
sounds like agave, needs impeccable drainage for cold hardyness.
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>http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/60610/
>or one of these?
>http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Fall/page3.html