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Agave is a genus of monocots. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies . Some species are known by the name century plant. Traditionally, it was circumscribed to be composed of about 166 species, but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species.

A large Agave native to the Baja California peninsula in Mexico that forms a rosette of attractively arching, succulent, bluish or yellowish green leaves in the manner of the famed Agave vilmoriniana. It can reach to 2 m in diameter.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Agave is a genus of monocots. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies . Some species are known by the name century plant. Traditionally, it was circumscribed to be composed of about 166 species, but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species. A large, robust, highly variable species native to the Mexican states of Puebla, Oaxaca and Hidalgo, where it grows on dry, rocky terrain. It forms a rosette of several stiff, pale green or blueish leaves that can reach to 2 m in diameter.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Agave is a genus of monocots. The plants are perennial, but each rosette flowers once and then dies . Some species are known by the name century plant. Traditionally, it was circumscribed to be composed of about 166 species, but it is now usually understood to have about 208 species. Agave lechuguilla is an Agave species found only in the Chihuahuan Desert, where it is an indicator species. It typically grows on calcareous soils. The plant flowers once in its life, then it dies. The flowers are a source of nutrients for insects, bats, and some birds. The leaves are long, tough, and rigid, with very sharp, hard points which can easily penetrate clothing and even leather, giving the colloquial name "shin-daggers". Mexican people have used fibers from the leaves. The water stored in the flowering stalks of this plant, rich in salts and minerals, is sold in Mexico as a sport drink. It is toxic to cattle and sheep. Roots of the plants were used as soap by Native Americans.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Aloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. Yemeni shrubby, branching aloe with stems up to about 1.6m. Very upright, bright green rosettes on narrow, long leaves with large, whitish marginal teeth. Leaves are a light, bright green. Flowers in winter are on solitary or sparsely branched inflorescences, and racemes are compactly conical, flowers orangish with yellower mouths. Plants seem to do equally well in full sun and in mostly shade.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Aloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa.

Aloe turkanensis has a sprawling habit. The stem is ascending, becoming decumbent, growing up to 70cm long and branching from the base to form large clumps 2 metres or more across. Each stem is topped by a dense rosette of 14 - 18 spear-shaped leaves that can be up to 70cm long and 9cm wide at the base.

USDA Zone - 10

Season to Sow - Spring

Aloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa.

Aloe vacillans is one of the "spotted" aloes. Native to Saudi Arabia and Yemen. This is the red flowering form.

USDA Zone - 10

Season to Sow - Spring

Ferocactus is a genus of large barrel-shaped cacti, mostly with large spines and small flowers. There are about 30 species included in the genus. They are found in the southwestern United States and north-western Mexico.

Originating in Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora), in coastal plains, at less than 400 m elevation. It grows in grit on the hill-sides. It gets lots of water in two months and lots of sun all year. The fruits of this plant are edible, and in the past, the seeds have been used to make flour. Barrel shaped, solitary, up to 40 cm in diameter, 2m tall; 13 sharp ribs, occasionally spiralled; the number of spines varies depending on the plant maturity; 7 to 9 central spines, at least one flattened, larger; bristle-like radials. Its flowers colour is always yellow with reddish midribs and brown tips. Blooming time summer and early autumn. The fruit is fleshy, yellowish green.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring

Parodia is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, native to the uplands of Argentina, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Uruguay. This genus has about 50 species, many of which have been transferred from Eriocactus, Notocactus and Wigginsia.

Native to Uruguay and Argentina. It grows among grasses in densely vegetated hilly terrain, in moderately steep rock grassy slopes, in rock-strewn terrain and flat meadows with rock inclusions. Parodia mammulosa subs. submammulosa commonly known as Notocactus submammulosus is a solitary cactus more or less covered by interlacing spines with large yellow, orange or red blooms with yellow centre, about 2,5-4.5 cm in diameter, short tubes and pink to red stigma.

USDA Zone - 9

Season to Sow - Spring