Agave ‘Grey Gator’ flower spike peaking @ JLBG

Agave Grey Gator in spike

Here’s a current photo of our spiking Agave ‘Grey Gator’.  The spike began four weeks ago today, and was measured yesterday at 22′ in height.  The bracts that surround the flower spikes are just beginning to unfurl, so we’re probably a couple of weeks from seeing flowers open.

This is the largest of the winter hardy agaves we’ve grown, and we still have some of our crop of seed grown plants from its sister seedling that flowered a couple of years ago…sold as Agave salmiana var. ferox x Agave asperrima. Each seedling will be slightly different in mature size…some a bit smaller and some even larger.  Don’t miss your opportunity to try these for yourself.  Hardiness Zone 7b-9b.

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