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Aug 3, 2018 8:34 PM CST
Name: Baja
Baja California (Zone 11b)
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I like the narrow leafed agaves. Here for comparison a geminiflora in part sun with some nice colors

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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.

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Gnarly margins and spines



Another attenuata hybrid looking cool and refined

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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).

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Nice little clump of parryi truncata in the late afternoon sun

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This is the ongoing aftermath of a Bloodspot flowering (picture above).

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Nice marginal hairs on these two

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These two are clumping like crazy.

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Potted and landscape Quadricolors

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One of the uglier agaves on the patio

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The big drought stressed Sharkskin is two generations removed from the potted plant, which is an offset of an offset.

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