{"id":13662,"date":"2011-02-17T11:53:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13662"},"modified":"2011-02-17T11:54:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:54:26","slug":"agave-cornelius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13662","title":{"rendered":"Agave &#8216;Cornelius&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>When I got home last night, Luc Besson&#8217;s <em>The Fifth Element<\/em> was streaming from Netflix.  (Sidebar:  TV is amazingly complicated these days.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/11711morn010.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First thing this morning, I was of course snapping photos of the Agave &#8216;Cornelius.&#8217;<br \/>\n Or &#8220;Corneeleyoos,&#8221; as Mila Jovovich croons the name throughout the movie, swaddled in ribbons of cloth designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/imagesmila.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I once got into a heated discussion with a video rental clerk (another blip in the continuum of extinct employment categories) over the merits of the movie, now a fond memory every time I read heated &#8220;discussions,&#8221; really one-off opinions, in the online Netflix movie reviews.  The clerk thought it the best thing since <em>Citizen Kane<\/em>, and I thought it was gorgeous fun, and so we parted ways with our original opinions intact.<\/p>\n<p>This agave is, no debate, flat-out gorgeous.  And that&#8217;s despite its other moniker of the Quasimoto Agave.  Reputed to be a cultivar of Agave americana, now in tissue propagation and more generally available.  Mine was bought by a friend at a sale from the Ruth Bancroft Garden.  There&#8217;s some slight damage from my garden snails to lower leaves, as can be seen lower right, but it&#8217;s pushing out pristine new leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/11711morn012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The little poppy, P. setigerum, has sown itself in the crevices around the porch, just showing buds, nestling up against the agave&#8217;s pot.<br \/>\nThe back porch has been one of the sunniest spots all winter, and little Corneeleyoos has done wonderfully here.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/2011\/11711morn023.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Photobucket\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home last night, Luc Besson&#8217;s The Fifth Element was streaming from Netflix. (Sidebar: TV is amazingly complicated these days.) First thing this morning, I was of course snapping photos of the Agave &#8216;Cornelius.&#8217; Or &#8220;Corneeleyoos,&#8221; as Mila &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=13662\">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":[28,36],"tags":[601,603,605,604,113,602],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-3ym","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13662"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13662\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}