I like the narrow leafed agaves. Here for comparison a geminiflora in part sun with some nice colors
And now an afternoon tour of agaves in the public garden, starting with some of the more common large agaves.... these plants get zero water and do fine.
One of several volunteers growing out from rhizomes after the mother plant died of complications from the agave snout weevil (where the orange aloe is now).
Nice little clump of parryi truncata in the late afternoon sun
This is the ongoing aftermath of a Bloodspot flowering (picture above).
Nice marginal hairs on these two
These two are clumping like crazy.
Potted and landscape Quadricolors
One of the uglier agaves on the patio
The big drought stressed Sharkskin is two generations removed from the potted plant, which is an offset of an offset.