{"id":54942,"date":"2014-05-10T12:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T16:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=54942"},"modified":"2015-04-26T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T22:47:22","slug":"agave-parryi-cream-spike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=54942","title":{"rendered":"Agave parryi &#8216;Cream Spike&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/blog\/may2014\/P1015598.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1015598.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is such a sweet agave for containers.  Under a foot across in ultimate size, it is nevertheless a busy little mother.  Just before its photo, I had cleaned out the offsets it produces so freely, which I&#8217;ll grow on to size in the front gravel garden.  I did the same thing for Agave &#8216;Dragon Toes&#8217; yesterday, another beautiful agave on the wee side.  I wouldn&#8217;t mind at all having sweeps of these compact beauties.  San Marcos Growers discusses provenance, nomenclature controversies, and hardiness on its site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smgrowers.com\/products\/plants\/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=3060\">here<\/a>.  I don&#8217;t see this agave too often in nurseries, despite its propagation by tissue culture and all those pups it produces.  When it finally made the local nursery circuit last year in a small (cheaper) size, I pounced.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/blog\/may2014\/P1015600.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1015600.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It still surprises me that snails glide their delicate slipper foot over spiky, barb-leaved agaves, but they do, as seen in the damage caused to a few central leaves.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/blog\/may2014\/P1015592.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo P1015592.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend a smooth-sided container that easily releases the mother plant so those pups can be nabbed as soon as they appear.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><\/big><\/p>\n<p>edited 2015 to note that this agave is gaining acceptance under Agave applanata &#8216;Cream Spike.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a sweet agave for containers. Under a foot across in ultimate size, it is nevertheless a busy little mother. Just before its photo, I had cleaned out the offsets it produces so freely, which I&#8217;ll grow on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=54942\">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":[28,842,36,898],"tags":[4179,3044,246],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-eia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942"}],"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=54942"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64379,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54942\/revisions\/64379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}