Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden adorned with obscenely large and

adorned with obscenely large and floriferous pendulous spikes of creamy yellow flowers starting in early April (in NC)

) We've found this to need rich soil and full sun to perform its best

deep blue foliage

it makes a 3' wide mat in one season but doesn't show tendencies to eat plants that it surrounds

Instead of the typical golden center

Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden adorned with obscenely large andThe year was 2008 I was walking through the Home Depot parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, gazing at the median strip plantings of yellow edged Agave desmettiana, when I spied one plant that stood out from the others. The mutated plant had much wider than normal golden yellow margins surrounding each soft, fleshy green leaf. I returned home with a pup which produced a slowly offsetting specimen to 3' tall x 3' wide that we are pleased to finally