Agave flexispina Alstroemeria pink and red

pink and red

After the flowers fade

'High Noon'

The plants are adorned with small axillary

we have long needed a more compact swamp sunflower

Agave flexispina Alstroemeria pink and redAgave flexispina is a rarely grown century plant, related to Agave palmeri and Agave shrevei, that struck my fancy when visiting the Ruth Bancroft Garden in California. Hailing from 4,500' to 7,500' in the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Durango and Zacatecas, Agave flexispina has shown great winter hardiness in our trials. The powder blue leaves with long red spines form rosettes that are often solitary but will offset occasionally once established. In