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Agave x loferox 'Sunshine Superman'

New Releases from The Tortured Agave Department

It’s always exciting for us when we finally are able to build up enough stock of a new agave we’ve selected, so we can finally publicly share. Since some agaves never offset naturally, they must first spend years confined to our 50 Shades of Gray torture bench, where we perform unthinkable deeds to force them

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Agave victoriae-reginae 'Sun King'

Containing A Century of Excitement

While we love our giant century plants for their garden value, we also treasure their smaller forms for container culture. Below are a few of our favorites, for those who may not have any garden space. As a general rule, most variegated forms are less winter hardy than their non-variegated counterparts, so unless you live

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Agave sp. Sierra Azul seedlings

More than a century of mystery – Agave ‘Azul Monterrey’

The latest new mystery in the century plant world is a plant that first showed up on a German seed vendor’s website in Fall 2022 under the name, Agave ‘Azul Monterrey’. It was touted on the site as a potential new species, which always generates lots of buzz in the agave collector world. Seed were

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