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Agaves make a bold statement in any garden! This native Mexican f orms
rosettes of succulent-like, soft fleshy, lime green to bluish
leaves, fantastic for adding interesting form and texture to garden
beds. Agaves have long been highlighted in gardening magazines and
television shows, used as features in pots, courtyards and
landscapes, they are particularly popular in modern garden designs.
Agaves
are one of the easiest plants to establish and maintain |
 Agave
are one of the easiest plants to establish and maintain, they grow
in full sun to shade in most soil types. Agave are best grown in
reasonably well drained soils and love to be watered regularly, once
a week to once a fortnight, but will thrive in periods of dryness.
 For strong healthy growth, fertilise your
plants every 3 months with a slow release fertiliser such as
Devotion™
Time Release Fertiliser and keep protected from heavy frosts.
When planting into pots, we recommend using
Devotion™
Yucca, Succulent and Cacti Mix, if planting in ground, this mix
can be incorporated with your parent soil at the rate of 70% parent
soil to 30% Devotion™ Yucca, Succulent and Cacti Mix. |
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Agave are great used as feature
plants |
Agave are great used as feature plants in Mediterranean and modern
style landscapes, pots and containers, rockeries, embankments and
tropical style gardens. They
look fantastic in pots on verandahs & balconies and can be planted
as courtyard features. They will tolerate exposed sites and look
great interplanted with other succulents, cacti, flax, bird of
paradise, mondo and
bongo grass.
Over the last few decades Agaves have only been
available for sale in small numbers at enormous prices in trendy
nurseries.
Chris and Marie love an
adventure and recently collected a large number of small Agave
rosettes that grow on the older Agave plants in Queensland. They
visit old farms and pick the small clumps of Agave and pack them
into banana and apple boxes and ship full boxes back to Melbourne
ready to be potted at our farms.
We have potted and grown thousands of the Agave rosettes which are
now ready for sale. By collecting and potting the Agave Chris &
Marie are able to offer our customers really good prices. |
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Chris and Marie
went seed collecting in LA and brought them back to Australia |
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 Chris
& Marie also took a trip to LA during the flowering season of the
Agave and collected thousands of Agave seeds. They brought these
back to Australia and we planted them straight away! Chris was busy
for over a week
climbing rattle-snake infested cliffs in Beverly Hills and Malibu
where Agave are planted in mass to hold embankments together, whilst
Marie stood in shock. The Agave flower heads that Chris found were
up to 20 foot long!
Price start from $12.50 for
a nice green healthy Agave in a 6” pot |
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