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The Cow Horn Agave. I can’t think of another agave with this translucent quality to its leaves.
\nAnd the little “steer horns” (teeth) fire up in morning sun like burning coals heating a branding iron.
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\nDo I really know anything at all about such cowboy matters as branding irons?
\nOnly what I learn from my husband constantly alluding to the old cowboy shows of his youth, like “Rawhide<\/a>,” whose theme song he knows by heart. And what I learn from checking in occasionally on that modern take on cowboy life, The Pioneer Woman<\/a> blog, a powerhouse of marketing which I’d never even heard of until The New Yorker<\/a> did a piece on it this past May. Always got my finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, yesiree. (Not!<\/em>) The Pioneer Woman’s photography is stupefyingly good. <\/p>\n

My little cow horn agave is growing up into a big beast, and the Irish guide lists 5 to 6 and a half feet as ultimate width. He grew to most of his current size, about 2X3 feet, in a container and was carefully<\/em> moved into this position in the garden last year. And like all agaves in the landscape, it’s always catching some manner of schmutz on its horns — I mean thorns. Teeth, rather. <\/p>\n

I really need to simplify this bit of garden in the fall, since the agave’s golden halo from slanting morning sun is obviously what’s important here. Most everything else is superfluous, especially that lanky aeonium and possibly even the *solanum grown as a standard which is responsible for all the schmutz. This agave reputedly doesn’t offset, flowering after 12 to 18 years, so it keeps that pure, lotus-like form to the end. Appreciates some shade in summer. From the Mexican states of Sinaloa, Sonora, and Chihuahua. Frost-tender.<\/p>\n

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*Typically, once I truly acknowledge where the problem is, there’s no lag time. Thought becomes action. In garden matters, anyway. Five minutes after I typed about its possible removal, the solanum standard is gone. Truthfully, there was a 5-foot tree covered in purple flowers behind the agave and aeonium when I woke up this morning, now headed for the shredder. But the aeonium stays for now.
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