Agave parryi Giant Grantkids Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants grass-like clumps of Marshallia caespitosa

grass-like clumps of Marshallia caespitosa are topped with 18" spikes that each terminate in a 1

We have had very good luck growing these in very moist garden soils as well as shallow standing water

Poliomintha 'Super Cracker' forms a stunning 32" tall x 5' wide woody clump of narrow semi-evergreen fragrant foliage

Flowering slows in the heat or summer

but this changes with age as the blue edge widens to 1-2"

Agave parryi Giant Grantkids Yellow/Gold Flowering Plants grass-like clumps of Marshallia caespitosaAgave parryi 'Giant Grantkids' is a 2024 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of a 2022 seed collection (with permission) from the late Agave specialist David Salman, who sent these seed just months prior to his untimely death. David described these as some of the largest Agave parryi clones he'd ever seen and from a very cold (Zone 5b) site at 7,000' in the Gila National Forest in Grant County, New Mexico. Plants at this population averaged 3 3. 5' in