I do try to help you succeed with your gardening goals. One of your goals may be thwarted this summer if the weather people are correct. It’s a bit of a long tale to get there - but this is about the agave and how it flowers.
The weather folk are saying it’s going to be a wet summer. This moisture after several years of drought often means that plants that bloom once and die (like our agave) may have been holding off on flowering during those dry years. Now, if you are mama agave, some nice moist soils means your seeds have a better chance of survival than drought soils. Genes say - time to flower! ((And yes, plants can indeed “sense” and respond to different ecological conditions.))
So this week on the website I wrote about agaves versus yucca flowers - to help you understand a unique biological process that you may get to witness in your yard this year. If your agave starts developing a stalk - stand back and marvel! Better yet. Take one photo every day from the exact same spot. It is amazing how fast those stalks develop!
One of the delights of being a gardener is that sometimes seeds that you did not know were there will sprout. This is the case in my garden right now. The soil warmed up, and some castor seeds decided to sprout. I have not had castor plants in that area for about 3 years! What a welcome surprise!
They are all sorts of lush and tropical looking, but they do withstand our heat and are relatively low water plants.
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