planted a year ago in a terrarium that has since mostly been neglected, this agave (i think that’s what it is) appears to have spent the year offering a green, placid face to the world, while secretly rooting around with an exploratory finger, trying to find a way to escape.
agave (?)
from a terrarium in my living room, via a greenhouse in saint paul on a winter day when my kids were so bored we needed to find something for them to do, including, if necessary, planting a succulent garden in a terrarium.
I enjoy perusing your blog and it’s archives over my morning coffee hence the comment on an old post. I live in Florida where agave is Queen. They bloom only once at around 25 to 30 years old and then die. The exploratory finger you refer to is the agave’s way of cloning itself (as succulents do) I like to call the clones ‘pups’ because they pop up all all around the mother plant, tiny little miniatures & every one of them springing from an exploratory finger. If given a little more time in that terrarium this little queen would probably have given you little clone of herself.