Agave ovatifolia or Whale Tongue Agave

I thought I would risk it to plant out a youngling of the rare Agave ovatifolia as I already have one but want more. Last spring I sowed a batch of seed purchased from rarepalmseeds.com along with other agaves and one species of Aloe and they were the only ones to germinate. In fact the rate was probably 90%!
They grow quite quickly I read so we will see. My more mature plant is approx 7 years old. If it even survives I may plant more...

Here goes...

Well here goes...

As The Plant Man I will attempt to write regularly on my favourite passion...All Things Green! In the garden that is,

It's winter here in the Blue Mountains and the weather is rather cold.  That hasn't stopped me planting out a new cleared area of the garden with various rare Aloes and Agaves namely

• Agave montana
• Agave stricta
• Agave nickelsaiae
• Agave 'Sharkskin'
• Agave 'Kichijokan'
• Aloe ferox
• Aloe marlothii
• Aloe excelesa

I hadn't planned on a deluge of rain not long afterwards and the coldest temperatures in 5 years however, so I will be interested to see how they establish or simply rot away.

Meanwhile construction is underway for a conservatory, and I will post on that as things move along...