Thanks Brad, your Aloe is beautiful. Thank you for the info on the Aloe, if I ever find one I'll be certain to find a suitable location.

Brad

That is really beautiful, even the stalks are beautiful...Rina

Can polyphylla take the rainy season in Florida? I would like to plant one in the ground, but have been worried about summers - very hot and wet. Yours is beautiful, Brad!

Here's my Agave v-r. I've had it about 2 years. It's in a 5-inch pot in full sun.

Aloe polyphylla is an alpine (not desert) plant, growing at 7000 - 10000 feet in the Drakensburg moutain of Lesotho. It gets snow in the winter and melt water all summer long. I live far enough North that the plant is happy in my deep bed, but folks in the LA area have trouble with higher temperatures. Growing in containers, the biggest problem is keeping the root temperature below 90F. The roots also require oxygen, so a very porous substrate in necessary. In habitat they grow on steep talus slopes. I have two in the deep bed, and they flowered in 2007 and 2008 after cold winters. No flowers since then.

Crenda, high temperature will kill roots, leaving the same plant vulnerable to rot. I'm not sure if you can keep them happy in Florida.

Just as I feared - so you will have to keep posting pictures of your plant! I can enjoy pictures any time! Thanks!

Lovely picture, Crenda. Really like the painted on look of the Agave v-r

Here is one of mine.

Nicholas- I only have 2 agaves with my limited space. Here is the Iophanta tricolor. I am looking for the other one I have..it's around here somewhere..

I found it! My little Agave filifera. it's in a 6" pot.

Crenda- They don't do well at all where I am either. It's too hot for them.

Such great pictures. Just makes me want them all that much more. Really hope the local succulent society will have some for their labor day sale. Will be my first time there.

GeeS - that is gorgeous! I laughingly say that I hope I live long enough to see mine look like that! How old is your plant?

Nice plants, Neil. Look what happened to my A. lopantha quadricolor during the winter - when I forgot that we were in the dry season! It was a baby, but the red was pretty.

Oh man, all these pretty Agave photos! And.. Aloe Polyphylla. A beautiful, rare, and unique Aloe. Always wanted one, don't quite have the conditions to make it work. Don't really have the space either, but that part never stopped me, much to the lament of my SO ;)

This is my only Agave, a variegated Agave potatorum. It's been doing pretty good-thankfully no bad news!

Wow, Becky. Love its wide chubby leaves.

Crenda, what happened to yours. Am i missing something in the photo? It looks pretty to me.

Forgot to ask before. Was cutting trees back on the property line and found this. Any idea on Id? Has thin bluish green leaves.

Crenda- I know you can bring it back to it's full glory! Mine has given me 3 pups since last year. I know how agave are and I hope that it's not a sign that it's going to bloom soon.

@Crenda: Thank you, it does seem to like life in the desert. I'd guess the plant is 7-8 years old. I have a couple smaller examples about 3 years younger. Try Agave nickelsiae, a larger, more robust version that can add as many as 20 new leaves per year. Equally beautiful Agave.

@Becky: Lovely example of A. 'Kissho Kan', rather than A. potatorum, a much larger, solitary plant.

@Nicholas C.: Agave angustifolia marginata

Thanks GeeS had no idea it was there and not sure how it got there :) also that A. nickelsiae is awesome.

^ Pretty plant (A. angustifolia), very robust and ideally suited for the SD area. Get it some more sun, and it will reward you for your effort.

Becky - that is a gorgeous Agave! Love it! And you've got a pup! Yea!!

GeeS - Ooh! I am definitely going to have to look for A. nickelsiae, too!

Golly, folks! I thought it was pretty cool that my really stressed lopantha showed red around the edges. But y'all aren't the only ones who told my how to save it. I actually watered the baby and it is fine now, postpartum. LOL

GeeS

Good to hear that A. nickelsiae grows so well...I recently received this youngster:

Rina, thank you for sharing. Always interesting to see how they look as babies.

GeeS, any tips on how I should dig it out? The soil here is all sand but I don't want to damage it.

Best way is to just pull it up, then pot it in a 1-gal container for about 8 weeks, then back in the ground in its new spot.

Thank you. I'll be sure to get it a nice sunny spot so its good and happy.