5 ARTICHOKE AGAVE Parry’s Huachuca Agave Parryi Huachucensis Century Plant Succulent Cactus Seeds

Description:
Name: Artichoke Agave
Other common names: Parry’s Agave / Huachuca Agave / Century Plant
Scientific name: Agave Parryi Huachucensis syn. Agave Huachucensis
Color: Yellow Flowers
Plant seeds: Outdoors in warm soil / Indoors weeks before last frost
Bloom time: Summer
Hardiness zone: 8 – 11
Plant height: 2 – 3′
Plant spacing: 3′
Light requirements: Sun
Soil & water preferences: Average – Dry
Quantity: 5 Seeds

About this item:
The Artichoke Agave is an evergreen succulent native to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, & Mexico. These drought-tolerant plants thrive in hot, dry, sunny locations & grow well in sandy or rocky soil. This Agave is both deer & rabbit resistant. They are an excellent choice for desert gardens, rock gardens, beds, borders, & containers. In time, the plants will reproduce by sending out offsets to form colonies.
The ‘Huachucensis’ variety sports more leaves that are flatter & wider than those of the regular Agave Parryi, & its silvery-blue rosette’s tight centers resemble an artichoke, earning it its common name. The leaf tips feature brown spines which provide nice visual contrast & interest, but these spines can be clipped off to make the plant ‘friendlier’ if it’s planted near walkways, etc.
This Agave plant’s foliage forms a neat tidy mound of 2 – 3’ wide & high, but its tall flower spikes will shoot up to 15’ in the air. The showy yellow blooms will attract bees, butterflies, & hummingbirds. Each Artichole Agave plant flowers only once in its lifetime, making the seeds rare.