Rewilding My Lot

I have a variegated version of an Agave Americana (Agave americana) that was a gifted pup from a friend’s plant. Mine was only planted here last year, but it has grown in that time and has already produced a pup of its own, so I can pay it forward and gift someone else!

Agaves are spectacular plants that can grow several feet across. They bloom only once in their lifetime, after about 10 years, with a bloom spike that can be as high as 20 feet tall. In the meantime, they can propagate by producing pups that grow under the parent plant. Those pups are easily dug up if you can avoid being injured by the sharp leaf spikes.

I don’t have room here for a colony of agaves, so I was happy to give away the one pup that I have at the moment.

Here are mom and baby.

The pup was very easy to dig up and readily separated from the parent.

Then I put the pup into a pot with some mycorrhizae to assist root growth, and it was ready to go to its new home!