Thank you for your thoughts Grevikeaaj

... of 2017 and my plant sitter friend didn't water it for a month when he was away himself. This year while I was back in the UK for 11 weeks the Agave was well watered once a fortnight and no such blistering occurred. Needless to say the 30 year old specimen in my London garden has suffered with ...

Hi Been meaning to post this for a few weeks now. Anybody any idea what as caused the discolourization on just one leaf of my Agave Franzosinii, It was outside for the summer(possible drips from overhang tree?)

agave .jpg Built this structure to house my agave and cacti planted in the ground to let them grow unrestricted. If low temperatures are forecast I have fleece curtains I pull around. they had their last watering last week ...

Good tip Dave .You can also get plastic pop up cloches at Home Bargins for £9.99each which do a good job of keeping Agave dry.

... but then I plan to run brown silicone along all the edges to stop water running inside the frames. That's a job for this weekend. The agaves are Agave Americana I think. The green variety. The polycarbonate came from eBay. It was £40 delivered for 10 sheets and I needed to order two lots to ensure ...

... have reached the roof, washie took a hit with the bad weather but has recovered well, everything else did quite well apart from my variegated agave which I covered with a cloche but slugs destroyed it, never bothered with it before, anyway I removed a pup before winter and put in plastic greenhouse ...

i would also had Tropical Britain (mail order only) every time(3 times) I have ordered a 3 litre agave from them they have always been bursting there pots and full of roots. Could also try Big Plant nursery although I only used them once but plant was fine.

try again

How they used to look AGAVE SALMIANA and the tall Cleistocactus Strausii

... loaded EASYLOG temperature USB censor . End of Feb into March went below freezing continually over four days lowest being -7c . Rain protected agave Salmiana suffered a lot of damage looks very sick I don't know if it will recover. It was a good size big wide leaves the size of shovels my pride ...

Mine is up against my south facing wall in a big pot and it came through this Winter with just damage to one or two outermost leaves. I hardly protected it, I say hardly, I did protect it with fleece in December when we had the snow, but took it off when the snow had gone so went totally unprotected...

... drained they are how dry kept in winter and age of plant .may I suggest you look under the exotics tab at top of page then succulents and then Agave Americana. Hardiness rating varies between 1c and -6c depending on what you want to believe .They do not like being frozen I understand. Varigated ...

Do anyone know how hardy Agave americana is and is the variegated form as hardy? I have one planted in the garden and a couple in pots and they all made it through the winter unscathed. The only protection they had was a piece of ply ...

... dead). Two pots of agapanthas only started emerging a few weeks back (after I'd just about given up and bought some replacements) and an agave which was in the ground and turned to mush has thrown up a new shoot. I put my citrus into dormancy over winter for the first time (in an unheated ...