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by WayneM
Mon May 22, 2023 12:30 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Agave ovatifolia
Replies: 18
Views: 907

Re: Agave ovatifolia

Have mixed feelings seeing it flower, but could help make another hardyish hybrid?

Wayne
by WayneM
Sun May 21, 2023 12:02 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

Mike,

Try contacting Bruce at Big Plant, maybe could be of help.

Best Regards
Wayne
by WayneM
Sat May 20, 2023 7:58 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

I'm posting for no other reason than I like a ovatifolia or three.
Beautiful plant, and I literally have the time shirt 👕
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Wayne
by WayneM
Sat May 13, 2023 9:49 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

Very nice Tina, nice find. Im betting this might happen a few times more. I wonder what it is ? After visiting Big Plant nursery with friends, I bought a very nice Agave Parryi ssp parryi, PXL_20230507_141519493-1.jpg and it will be being joined by yet another ovatifolia. :grin: But its slightly dif...
by WayneM
Thu May 11, 2023 6:47 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

That drybed is looking very promising 👌 well done. I have both rostrata and linearifolia although small both outside and all unmarked over that wicked winter. I'm a rather nervy gardener when it comes to over wintering my plants, so as you can imagine I was happy that my carbuncle of a shelter did a...
by WayneM
Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

My biggest ovatifolia was first bought as the most scrawny looking specimen from a UK nursery, and its been a pleasure to watch it go from ugly duckling to beautiful Swan 😍 The other ovatifolia is from The Palm Tree Company, called Iced Heart, but I was thinking that it was maybe a very blue versio...
by WayneM
Wed Mar 29, 2023 9:22 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

My biggest ovatifolia was first bought as the most scrawny looking specimen from a UK nursery, and its been a pleasure to watch it go from ugly duckling to beautiful Swan 😍 The other ovatifolia is from The Palm Tree Company, called Iced Heart, but I was thinking that it was maybe a very blue version...
by WayneM
Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:20 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: An arid raised bed - advice please!
Replies: 59
Views: 2841

Re: An arid raised bed - advice please!

If you have room for a ovatifolia, I've found these to be great in our climate. I love them, I have a few of various sizes. Have fun with your drybed, its all a learning curve 😉 Give your plants room to spread themselves out, its surprising how quickly they grow when their roots are in the ground . ...
by WayneM
Sun Feb 05, 2023 9:19 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Not so hardy Agave
Replies: 39
Views: 2005

Re: Not so hardy Agave

I lost another Agave, a parryi truncata that was covered, but I guess it was the wet that finished it. But all this talk of dead plants is depressing, and its not going to put us off growing these plants is it :grin: ? We go again. Under the shelter IMG_20230130_162905_076.jpg My ovatifolia PXL_2023...
by WayneM
Fri Jan 27, 2023 5:20 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Not so hardy Agave
Replies: 39
Views: 2005

Re: Not so hardy Agave

Those big beautiful Aloe polyphylla at Kew, no more :cry: . But they will probably have decent size back ups for this spring.
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Wayne