(Courtesy Tom Karwin) Variegated Caribbean agave (agave angustifolia ... (Courtesy Tom Karwin) White-striped century plant ...

Say “agave,” and many people think of americana. Commanding in stature and structure, most century plants grow 6 to 10 feet tall, and some are as wide as 13 feet. ‘Variegata’ is bold yet ...

Snout weevils prefer the wide-blade forms of agave such as Agave Americana in both the blue form and the variegated forms. I'm seeing more of the variegated forms in landscapes and therefore more ...

However, a less vigorous form of the species is the yellow striped Agave americana “Variegata” and the white striped A. americana “Medio Picta.” These demonstrate its variability in size ...

Known as the century plant because it blooms infrequently, it is native to Mexico and the American Southwest and typically lives 10 to 25 years in the wild before blooming a single time then dying.

Right there in pride of place was a thriving Agave americana “Variegata” with its serrated banana-yellow leaf margins and savagely spiked tips. Head gardener Dave Boyd kindly sent me home with ...

The variegated American agave (Agave americana) was collected in Mexico by famed ethno-botanist Alfred Whiting, who then was a University of Michigan graduate student. Known as the century plant ...