Agave/Yucca

Sun/part shade; evergreen. An extremely tough graceful wiregrass with long firm leaves resembling nolina or liriope. Very slow growing, but strongly architectural, eventually forming a low woody [...]

Full sun. Evergreen and very ornamental with long, mounding grass-like foliage armed with sharp teeth. The common name desert spoon, refers not to the leaves but their bases which contain an [...]

Full or mostly sun. Evergreen. A variegated form of the century plant, with a perfect white ribbon in the center of each leaf. This agave makes a dramatic statement in the landscape, but it [...]

Full sun; evergreen, with a large rosette of broad greenish-blue leaves. Although toothless, the leaves carry stiff terminal spines. There is no wild population of the species; it originated from [...]

Full sun. Evergreen. A variegated form of the common century plant, with yellow margins along the alligator-toothed leaves. It makes a dramatic tropical statement in the landscape. Just place it [...]

Full sun or shade; evergreen. An agave with very slim, needle-like dark leaves. With its sculptural form, it’s quite distinctive. Its fiber filaments give it a wispy appearance. Its [...]

Full sun. Evergreen; densely arrayed leaves have striking white markings on both sides. Victoria is a very slow-growing and compact ornamental agave, barely bigger than a soccer ball, often used [...]

Full sun. Evergreen. Considered one of the most attractive agaves, with wide blue leaves and jet-black spines. (12′ yellow-flowering stalks appear at the end of its life cycle). [...]

Evergreen; small, with gently arching leaves. The rough ridges along the margin should be handled with care but, overall, soft leaves and soft terminal spines make this one of the gentlest, least [...]

Full sun to part shade. An attractive small or mid-sized agave, often with variegated leaves. It tolerates moisture fairly well, but not temperatures below 24 degrees; expect some dieback in [...]