AGAVE CENTURY PLANT Varigated type Name: Agave Century Plant Plant Type: Agave Height: 5’-6’ Width: 6’-8’ Light: full sun Salt: good salt tolerance Deer: do not usually eat Zone: 8-11 Notes: A slow growing evergreen succulent. This large plant can be dramatic in the landscape-give it lots of room to grow in a low traffic area. This Agave Century plant will flower after a decade or so (not a centrury) once it flowers it will perish. Does best in well drained soil with lots of sun.
Statuesque, sculptural and about as architectural as you can get. They’re now so widely spread in cultivation that no one can quite remember where they came from. Mexico or thereabouts. Anything spiky and everyone blames Mexico. Very often, with good reason – the place is full of spiky plants. Certainly the new world, rather than the old. Nothing makes a statement like this. A pair in pots either side of an entrance always works. They can take low temperatures (-5°c or less) but they don’t like the damp so hauling them into a greenhouse, shed or garage between November and March is the best idea but if the garden is mild (centre of huge metropolis or near the seaside) they will survive in the ground. The furthest north I’ve ever seen these growing in the ground is the northern tip of Jutland in very sandy soil. They wrap them with sacking in the winter but it’s still a surprising site in Scandinavia. One thing we know – the bigger they are the more frost hardy they are. Use a big old carving knife to remove the old leaves and also dig up the pups (baby suckers round the base). These can be potted and grown into new plants.
The primary pic is the actual plant you'll get. It's about 8"-10" tall and about as wide and it will be bare-rooted.