Agave Living Sculptures for landscapes and containers



Lecture #

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Why do you like Agaves?

The perfect symmetry of the rosette, regardless of the leaf size. 

Narrow or wide, the mathematical precision as the leaves spiral around the central point, revealing an affinity for Fibonacci patterns, is quite mesmerizing.

Fibonacci patterns








https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/nature-golden-ratio-fibonacci.html




Many broad-leaved species sink their gnarly, wicked teeth deep into my flesh as I work with them, causing me to pause, mumble a few choice words, and then inspect the intricacies of the teeth and the decorative impressions they left on the surrounding leaves. These impressions are called BUD PRINTS, form while the leaves are soft and malleable as they sit tightly wrapped in the developing leaf cone and remain for the life of the leaf.

BUD PRINTS:




Bud-printing is the term used for the impressions made by one leaf against another in Agave plants, forming when the leaves are pressed tightly together in the cone at the center of the rosette, before they unfurl.




Two add to the variation there are two basic vegetative types: the solitary or non offsetting ones, and those that produce offsets in the leaf axils or baby plants connected to the mother plant by underground stems.

Nearly all agaves, along with most bromeliads such as pineapple, are somewhat peculiar in their flowering habit. They grow vegetatively for many years (though not the hundred years that gave rise to the common name of century plant) without producing a single flower, and then when they get the urge to reproduce, they send forth an enormous stalk with hundreds and hundreds of them. These plants that flower and set seed only once in their lives are called monocarpic; Gentry coined the term multi annual specifically for agaves.

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