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DesertZone
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Re: some agaves
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Good info thanks.
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Well, info, anyway.
Agave havardiana is supposed to be the hardiest agave (I disagree; I say it's A. utahensis; it doesn't get to twenty below in Texas). People say that the bigger the plant, the better its chances. (My observation is that little, seed-grown plants have no chance at all.)
Uh, the larger the plant, the higher the price.
So here are a couple of pictures of part of the front yard, that I just took, displaying a
total lack of financial discretion
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Bob
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Oh, and a self sown snapdragon.
Bob
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I've not had great success with the hardier agaves, due to our soggy winters. Even with cover they don't prosper. Possibly bigger plants would be more adaptable, but I've only tried young plants grown from seed. However, I am really pleased by several dasylirions, which I imported from Yucca Do Nursery. At least in the sand bed these have prospered and not been damaged in our protracted cold last winter. I've only seen them before on Tresco (Isles of Scilly), where they make marvellous 'fibre optic' like clumps. Great plants.
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
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I garden in a relatively hot and dry region (for the UK!), with an annual rainfall of around 25", winter lows of -10°C and summer highs of 30°C.
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English gardens are
not
supposed to look like that!
(Okay, yes, they are. The first thing I think of when I think of Yucca is Wm. Robinson's encomium in The English Flower Garden.)
Bob
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Bob - I have a certain eccentricity and am not sure what a garden should look like! What I like most is collecting and propagating plants and trying to convince other gardeners they are worth growing!
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Dr. Timothy John Ingram
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I garden in a relatively hot and dry region (for the UK!), with an annual rainfall of around 25", winter lows of -10°C and summer highs of 30°C.
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I have a certain eccentricity and am not sure what a garden should look like!
It's funny that people on this side of the Atlantic talk about the "English garden" as though it were something that could be fixed in the imagination. I suspect they mean Sissinghurst.
Add Logan and Tresco and you have a very different picture, don't you?
And I'm constantly reminded that Farrer grew a lot of western North American plants long before we did.
There's a pretty funny story in Weber about Jamesia americana too.
Bob
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Quote from: Tim Ingram on November 27, 2011, 02:47:58 PM
I've not had great success with the hardier agaves, due to our soggy winters. Even with cover they don't prosper. Possibly bigger plants would be more adaptable, but I've only tried young plants grown from seed. However, I am really pleased by several dasylirions, which I imported from Yucca Do Nursery. At least in the sand bed these have prospered and not been damaged in our protracted cold last winter. I've only seen them before on Tresco (Isles of Scilly), where they make marvellous 'fibre optic' like clumps. Great plants.
Those look great! Nice plants.
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I thought about moving to Arizona so I could grow more dasylirions, but now I wonder if i shouldn't move to England .....
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