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Agave Americana

🌵 Blue Agave Americana (Century Plant) – A Bold, Hardy Choice for Low-Water Landscapes

Bring dramatic, desert-inspired beauty to your garden with the Blue Agave Americana, also known as the Century Plant. Native to Mexico and celebrated for its resilience, this agave species is admired for its large, sculptural rosette of blue-green leaves and exceptional drought tolerance. It thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, making it perfect for low-maintenance landscapes in arid and semi-arid regions.

🌟 Features and Benefits:

🌱 Impressive Size and Architectural Appeal: When mature, this agave forms a bold rosette up to 6-8 feet tall and wide, creating a stunning centerpiece in any garden or landscape. Its blue-green leaves bring a striking, architectural silhouette to outdoor spaces.

❄️ Cold Hardy and Resilient: Hardy in USDA zones 7b-11, the Blue Agave Americana tolerates temperatures as low as 15°F. Perfect for xeriscaping, it requires minimal water and maintenance once established.

🌿 Versatile Landscaping Options:

💧 Drought-Tolerant Landscapes: With its low water needs, the Blue Agave Americana is an ideal choice for dry gardens, rock gardens, and xeriscaping projects.

🌈 Accent Planting: The unique form and color of this agave make it an eye-catching focal point in any garden design.

🪴 Container Gardening: While large at maturity, it can also thrive in containers, making it a versatile addition to patios and entryways.

📦 Shipping & Planting

Our Blue Agave Americana plants are carefully packaged and wrapped to ensure safe arrival at your doorstep, ready to be planted with ease. Every order includes planting, watering, and care instructions to help your agave thrive.

Agave design and application suggestions:

Agave design and application suggestions:

Agaves are a wonderfully diverse group of plants. Agaves can be small and solitary like our Agave victoria-reginaeor big and bold like our Agave americana variegata. Equally suited for container gardening or used in landscape applications with proper climate conditions. Group small and mid-sized agaves in the landscape for impact and place larger agaves to add big bold accents. You can do the same with container gardening. A mix of different sized agaves with different growth habits, leaf shapes and colors in nice containers can give any room or patio an impactful artistic boost.

Agaves are a wonderfully diverse group of plants. Agaves can be small and solitary like our Agave victoria-reginaeor big and bold like our Agave americana variegata. Equally suited for container gardening or used in landscape applications with proper climate conditions. Group small and mid-sized agaves in the landscape for impact and place larger agaves to add big bold accents. You can do the same with container gardening. A mix of different sized agaves with different growth habits, leaf shapes and colors in nice containers can give any room or patio an impactful artistic boost.

Agave design and application suggestions:

Agave design and application suggestions:

Agaves are a wonderfully diverse group of plants. Agaves can be small and solitary like our Agave victoria-reginaeor big and bold like our Agave americana variegata. Equally suited for container gardening or used in landscape applications with proper climate conditions. Group small and mid-sized agaves in the landscape for impact and place larger agaves to add big bold accents. You can do the same with container gardening. A mix of different sized agaves with different growth habits, leaf shapes and colors in nice containers can give any room or patio an impactful artistic boost.

Agaves are a wonderfully diverse group of plants. Agaves can be small and solitary like our Agave victoria-reginaeor big and bold like our Agave americana variegata. Equally suited for container gardening or used in landscape applications with proper climate conditions. Group small and mid-sized agaves in the landscape for impact and place larger agaves to add big bold accents. You can do the same with container gardening. A mix of different sized agaves with different growth habits, leaf shapes and colors in nice containers can give any room or patio an impactful artistic boost.

Why purchase our Agave?

Why purchase our Agave?

Our agaves are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. Our agaves present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your agaves and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Our agaves are grown in their native habitat right here in Southern Arizona. Raised outdoors with just the right amount of water and fertilizer, they come to you in their natural form. These plants do not come to you from a greenhouse. They are already hardy to whatever growing conditions you have to offer. Our agaves present the same appearance as you will find them in their native habitats.

If you want to plant them in a container for a sunroom, patio or window planter, great! If you want to take your agaves and plant them in the ground, also great! No acclimation needed. Our plants are ready to go!

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

Reliable packaging and shipping

Reliable packaging and shipping

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

We strive to offer the most healthy cacti and succulents you can find anywhere that are shipped right to your door. Our plants are professionally packaged with expertise honed by shipping amazing plants to customers like you for over 20 years. Our packaging process ensures a bare minimum of damaged orders. All of our plants are wrapped in bubble wrap and tape, which should not be taken off until your plant is in its final home. The bubble wrap offers you and the plant additional protection while planting. All of our plants are shipped bare root.

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Christopher Gambill
Agave Americano - century plant

We bought a 5 gallon century plant from the cactus outlet. We are very pleased with our purchase. The plant arrived in a timely manner and it pristine condition. It looks great in it's new home!

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