Agave - Artichoke

Many consider them the queen of Agaves, at least for practical landscape applications. They are small to medium sized, mostly solitary, with bright powder-blue color, short sharp marginal teeth with wide truncated leaves that end in a dark black terminal spine, often with a sexy curve. They are durable, widely adaptable with good natural cold hardiness and thanks to the advent of tissue culture propagation, these plants are extremely uniform, which makes them attractive for modern minimalistic geometric planting patterns. They prefer full sun, but will tolerate filtered or partial sun with well-drained soil.

Scientific name:  Agave parryi v. truncata