Like their pure blue cousin, these agaves have wide leaves armed with sharp marginal spines, but these are richly variegated with vertical stripes of bright yellow to golden color along the leaf edges, with gray green to blue-green center stripe. In time, these slow to moderate growers can produce leaves up to 10 ft. long with sexy curves and twists, but most of their youth is spent as well-behaved, rigidly upright vase-shaped accent plants of 3 to 6 ft. high & wide. They are very drought tolerant and require minimal maintenance.

An iconic classic. Its common name is derived from how long they were thought to live before blooming, although a century is an exaggeration. Sizable teeth along the leaf margins and sharp terminal spine adorn wide blue-green to gray-green strongly vertical leaves. They are low maintenance and have low water requirements. In their advanced age they are prone to suckering, with many baby off-shoots forming from the roots. Significant off-shooting can also occur due to stress conditions such as prolonged drought which can be avoided, but this also happens when the mother plant transitions from its vegetative state to reproductive state to bloom. Give these majestic beauties some space to grow and become a deserving focal point.

In their natural desert scrub habitat, these Agaves appear like terrestrial cephalopods, hence the common name Octopus Agave. They have wild, strongly recurved, unarmed olive green leaves that arch out from a central crown to form an open sculptural rosette. The leaf texture can be slightly scabrous. These are mostly solitary plants but they can produce colonies from bulbils that fall from bloom stalks and root in. When mature, their unbranched bloom stalks can produce either yellow flowers or bulbils, which is how they are mostly propagated. These are low maintenance and highly adaptable Agaves that can be used in any frost-free landscape. Plant one specimen for a statement or plant them in mass.

These Chihuahuan desert native agaves form distinctive, tight ball-shaped rosettes with short, thick, and rigid triangular toothless leaves of dark green with white bud imprint on upper and lower leaf surfaces. They look like an artichoke. Each leaf does have a short, sharp terminal spine, but they are mostly smooth as Agaves goes. They are slow growing but dependable in well-drained soils for full sun to part sun locations. They work well in containers, planted in masses, or simply mixed with other desert accents or perennials.

These Agaves have spread to tropical countries across the world as a popular fiber commodity. They occur naturally in southern Mexico where they live free from frost and get ample natural rainfall. These are large sized plants with distinctive narrow, straight lance-shaped leaves typically dark green to deep gray-green with short, sharp terminal spine and tiny serrated marginal teeth. These are free suckering plants with one larger mother plant with numerous pups of various sizes around her base. Bloom stalks are impressively tall at 15-20 ft. tall with widely spaced branched clustered blooms. They tolerate heat with no issues, they require good drainage and will be happiest with regular supplemental irrigation, especially during warmer months of the year. Give them space to grow and spread, but they pair well with any desert trees or other large-scale cacti or accent plants.

These Chihuahuan desert native agaves form distinctive, tight ball-shaped rosettes with short, thick, and rigid triangular toothless leaves of dark green with white bud imprint on upper and lower leaf surfaces. They look like an artichoke. Each leaf does have a short, sharp terminal spine, but they are mostly smooth as Agaves goes. They are slow growing but dependable in well-drained soils for full sun to part sun locations. They work well in containers, planted in masses, or simply mixed with other desert accents or perennials.

Many consider them the queen of Agaves, at least for practical landscape applications. They are small to medium sized, mostly solitary, with bright powder-blue color, short sharp marginal teeth with wide truncated leaves that end in a dark black terminal spine, often with a sexy curve. They are durable, widely adaptable with good natural cold hardiness and thanks to the advent of tissue culture propagation, these plants are extremely uniform, which makes them attractive for modern minimalistic geometric planting patterns. They prefer full sun, but will tolerate filtered or partial sun with well-drained soil.

Variable Agaves with a wide natural distribution in northern Mexico can yield several slightly different appearances of this species. However, for these purposes, they typically form wide, lime-green guttered, tapered leaves with sharp, protruding marginal teeth and a stout, dark terminal spine. They will grow slowly to be slightly wider than they are tall with some offsetting pups. These Agaves can be happy in full sun to part shade amongst many other drought tolerant adaptable or native trees, shrubs, perennials, ornamental grasses, or Yucca sp.

These Agaves have spread to tropical countries across the world as a popular fiber commodity. They occur naturally in southern Mexico where they live free from frost and get ample natural rainfall. These are large sized plants with distinctive narrow, straight lance-shaped leaves typically dark green to deep gray-green with short, sharp terminal spine and tiny serrated marginal teeth. These are free suckering plants with one larger mother plant with numerous pups of various sizes around her base. Bloom stalks are impressively tall at 15-20 ft. tall with widely spaced branched clustered blooms. They tolerate heat with no issues, they require good drainage and will be happiest with regular supplemental irrigation, especially during warmer months of the year. Give them space to grow and spread, but they pair well with any desert trees or other large-scale cacti or accent plants.