Snail-free Agave Attenuata
Ohh, you shoudla heard the expletives fly this morning when I discovered this colony of snails in my beloved agaves. I wanted to pull an Amy Stewart and throw them into the street…but there were too many neighbors and passersby out and about, so I gathered up about 15-20 snails and threw them into the garbage. Goodbye!
- Snail Hideout
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Posted by chuck b. on July 16, 2010 at 10:29 am
Nice clump of agaves. I think they look really good massed together. Did you plant them like that or did they volunteer from another plant? It looks very natural.
Posted by kelly'simaginarygarden on July 16, 2010 at 8:20 pm
Hi Chuck!
This clump started as a single agave attenuata that I got at a farmer’s market in Santa Cruz over 10 years ago. I fell in love with it, but naively asked the man if it flowered. Ha. I remember that he got a little huffy and replied, It doesn’t have to flower to be beautiful! I had it in a big pot for years, then put it in the ground 5 years ago, where it has grown and the pups really took off. The small one to the left is from a different plant. I had that one in a pot in full sun and it was turning yellow, so I moved it to its present semi-shady spot last year and it seems much happier.