Agave guiengola 'Creme Brulee'

I've posted this plant before on the blog but only yesterday listed it at our nursery. It's Agave guiengola 'Creme Brulee'. Originating from the Guiengola limestone cliffs of Oaxaca in Mexico and originally sold with the invalid cultivar name Agave guiengola 'Marginata', it now goes with the more colorful name of Creme Brulee. The pink on the edges tends to come with the brighter light of summer, becoming lest noticeable during the winter months. We've fallen in love with this plant so I couldn't resist posting it again.

Enjoy your plants.

Agave guiengola 'Creme Brulee'

The coloration on these plants has been outstanding this year. Eventually they will grow to be very large, like the non-variegated species. But it's not especially cold hardy, taking temps down to the upper 20s F but objecting to anything lower. So...for warmth deprived areas such as ours, it makes a great larger pot specimen which is brought into cover during the cold of winter. Well worth the effort.