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)

Jane went to school

This easy to grow groundcover forms a fabulous 1' tall slowly-widening patch

Instead of the typical golden center

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