Do you remember the photo I posted of the agave flower stalk last April? It’s a damn shame, but sometime in the last 24 hours, the top-heavy succulent toppled over and into our neighbor’s cactus garden.
We had been watching the progress of the agave since the flower stalk appeared. We drove down our road today to do some errands and saw that the agave had toppled. So sad – I was looking forward to getting some photos of the flowers that the little hummingbirds just love. I feel sorry for our neighbor who has to get the mess cleaned up and hauled. Fortunately, the fall did not destroy the section of split-rail fencing where it fell.
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OUCH!
Those things are pretty tough. I had a friend who didn’t like the one growing up in his back yard, so he chopped it up, and tossed the chunks into his “compost pile”.
It grew!
Maybe you can just replant it a bit deeper?
We drove by it this morning and they’d chopped it all up. It didn’t have a very deep root system, maybe that’s why it fell.
It wouldn’t matter anyway, drjim. When they flower, they die, unless it’s a species that puts out basal pups.
I feel for the little hummingbirds that won’t be able to enjoy the nectar from the agave’s flowers. 🙁
Thanks, Crotalus.
I never knew that about agaves.