{"id":10318,"date":"2010-12-01T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10318"},"modified":"2010-12-01T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:21:11","slug":"some-agaves-and-aloes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10318","title":{"rendered":"Some Agaves and Aloes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>From a recent visit to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/huntingtonlibrary.aspx?id=494\">Huntington Desert Garden<\/a>.  I was quite excited to see the blue-leaved form of Agave attenuata.  There&#8217;s some discussion on the nomenclature of this foxtail agave from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=2870\">San Marcos Growers<\/a>, which indicates there&#8217;s varieties with differing degrees of blueness, but this one would fulfill all my blue needs.  No visible label in the garden, but this colony of foxtail agaves would seem to be the &#8216;Huntington Blue&#8217; San Marcos refers to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt099.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Agave schidigera <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3336\">&#8216;Durango Delight&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt094.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt093.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An Agave victoriae-reginae before bloom.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt089.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And another after.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt090.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was most interested this visit in checking out moderate-sized aloes that grow in a single stemless rosette.  Hopefully, the photos and identification notes correspond correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Aloe aculeata, South Africa, zone 9-10.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt078.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt080.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aloe berhana, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt076.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aloe chabaudii.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt074.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blooms of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntington.org\/BotanicalDiv\/ISI2005\/isi\/2005-10.html\">Aloe sinkatana,<\/a> described by the HBG as &#8220;one of the most useful small landscape aloes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/huntingtonNovember2010\/1127hunt069.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(There are currently multiple threads posted this November on the GardenWeb Cacti &#038; Succulents forum like this <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.gardenweb.com\/forums\/load\/cacti\/msg1119174231783.html?2\">one<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.gardenweb.com\/forums\/load\/cacti\/msg1119405724359.html\">one<\/a>, photodocumenting a single astounding collection of aloes that will be a great reference for identification purposes.  Really worth a look.)<\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a recent visit to the Huntington Desert Garden. I was quite excited to see the blue-leaved form of Agave attenuata. There&#8217;s some discussion on the nomenclature of this foxtail agave from San Marcos Growers, which indicates there&#8217;s varieties with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=10318\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28,112],"tags":[358,366,360,361,362,363,364,365,359,367,357,246],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-2Gq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10318"}],"version-history":[{"count":56,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10417,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10318\/revisions\/10417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}