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Agave salmiana flowering in Surrey
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Paul Spracklin
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:55 pm Posts: 2564 Location: North Thames delta UK
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Agave salmiana flowering in Surrey
A good friend of mine and agave connoisseur, Jan Kolendo, has an Agave salmiana in full swing at the moment. It started to push up the spike last year, paused over winter then marched ahead. I took these pictures last Monday as the light was failing, plus one dated April 2005. I am sure I had some other going even further back but can't put my hand to them at the moment.
Not what you would expect in suburbia!
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Sun Jun 11, 2017 7:52 pm |
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Martinnicklin
Joined: Fri Oct 05, 2012 9:06 pm Posts: 2675 Location: Telford UK
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Re: Agave salmiana flowering in Surrey
Stunning agaves and now we know what to grow next to conifer hedges! Perhaps the conifers give enough cold protection and their roots keep the soil dry enough for the agaves not to rot. I have just nearly killed myself removing a hedge of 12ft conifers from my new garden fearing that nothing would grow under them. I have over 100 different types of agave - perhaps I should have made a similar border of them under the conifers and saved myself several weeks of backache, shredding and sore, tar covered hands.
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Mon Jun 12, 2017 10:06 am |
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Andy Martin
Joined: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:58 pm Posts: 1279 Location: Oxford UK
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Re: Agave salmiana flowering in Surrey
That is a great achievement. How did he get this agave through those cluster of very cold 2009,10.11 Winters?
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