Giant Agave smashes through greenhouse

That'll learn em

 

There was one the other day in someone's front garden. They'd grown it 20 years ago (or something) brought back from some Mediterranean holiday, never expecting it to survive. Of course now its for the chop (monocarpic)

 

Here we go



http://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/mexican-plant-in-minster-21978/

 

I have Agaves growing under my glazed pergola.

I'm looking forward to the time when they smash through the glass and create a bit of excitement.

 

I had an A, filifera flower one year, its a smaller kind than the ones in the pictures, but even so it reached a good 12 ft or more.
It was about 20 yrs old.

 

I'm surprised that some jobsworth didn't tell them it had to go as it might interfere with the cables!!

 

Have they updated the story on Beeb website? @JWK photos no longer there, but the ones that are are even more impressive!



I didn't know that Agave needed dead-heading

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-28854383

 

As quoted by the Beeb:

"The Agave salmiana, of the ferox variety ..."

 

That could be a laugh! They're viscous.....................

 

If you land on the central spike its certain death.