Agave, Century Plant, Maguey 'Blue Glow'

I have Blue Glow in a turquoise-color ceramic pot with two other agave types under a small ramada. Blue Glow receives morning sun and sha...Read Morede the rest of the day. It is doing well after one year.The plant is watered deeply about once every 2 1/2 weeks in summer and receives a diluted dose or two of fish emulsion fertilizer during the hot season. Great-looking agave and relatively small. Grows well in a stock cactus mix.

This plant is surprisingly cold hardy. The same plant that i posted as a small pup is now much larger and survived two winters in Bishop,...Read More CA where it had minimal leaf damage after clear nights of 9 degrees Fahrenheit and other nights of being covered in snow.

Gorgeous plant with a great hue for the desert. They have these now at some of the big box stores around Phoenix but be warned, I've com...Read Moree across a couple that were mislabeled.

Beautiful, fast-growing Agave. It needs some sun protection here in the Valley, and it's relatively defenseless. No spines save an unimpr...Read Moreessive terminal spine, thin skin, and very fleshy leaves. Rabbits and rodents will have a field day if given half a chance.

This is a very beautiful agave. My garden is in the Sonora Desert south of Tucson, AZ in zone 9A. "Blue Glow" needs some protection from ...Read Morethe summer sun here if the deep blue-green color is to be preserved. Both filtered shade for the entire day or or full sun for half of the day works well.

As Palmbob mentioned it seems to be quickly gaining popularity as we now are seeing quite a few at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phx AZ....Read More One thing I have noticed as well is the price at which they are selling. Small plants are being priced at ~$70. which is hard to stomach. Not sure if the price is going up or I just got lucky. :)

Certainly one of my top 5 Agaves though... they are beautiful.

Supposed to be a cross between Agave attenuata and A ocahui. It's a nice looking plant. I am not sure, but it sounds like the A attenua...Read Moreta is the blue form?... doesn't look much like either plant- none of the soft edges of A attenuata (dangerous sharp long black terminal spine, and wide deep blue green leaves)... some teeth but they seem to taper out to nothing towards the leaf ends (at least in the seedlings). Supposed to get up to 3-4' across eventually.

Sure enough as soon as I see at one nursery, all C&S nurseries seem to have it now. I see this phenomenon with a lot of 'new' plants.