The Pineapple Cut

Wouldn't it be nice to live in an area that is mild enough that you can grow several agaves outside, plenty enough that you can experiment in altering the appearance of one or two of them?

This is just a flight of fancy of course, I wouldn't want to migrate somewhere on the sole basis I can grow agaves there (I'm sure some would) but this thought passed my mind when we saw these agaves:

Agave salmiana var. ferox

Beautiful or Butchered? Like of Loathe? These agaves have had the pineapple cut!

You're lucky to be able to grow one or two of these outside in the UK and get it to reach gigantic proportions (it is possible especially with a winter rain shelter). As prized garden specimens you wouldn't even want to think about being experimental with the way they are trimmed. But if you live in a mild area and have so many, perhaps why not with a few?

Agave salmiana var. ferox - taken later in the day

Or maybe not....

Gaz wasn't keen on it. I quite liked it in an odd and quirky sort of way (ducks for cover...)

Mark :-)