Agave palmeri Cutty Shark Shrubs and Conifers This old Japanese cultivar is

This old Japanese cultivar is still one of the most prized hostas in American gardens

With this introduction

highlighted by the dramatic red-purple veining in the leaves

Cordate spikenard is one of a small number of bold-textured

Selected from seedlings that survived our 1984/85 winter of -9 degrees F

Agave palmeri Cutty Shark Shrubs and Conifers This old Japanese cultivar isThis form of Agave palmeri is our seedling selection from a population of plants growing near Divisadero, in the northern Mexican State of Sonora. We found this form to be quite distinct from all of the AZ populations that we have visited. The tall silver blue leaves, edged with hundreds of tiny teeth, and with great bud imprinting, form a 3' tall x 3' wide (in 7 years) slowly offsetting clump quite dramatic.