{"id":6603,"date":"2020-03-07T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=6603"},"modified":"2020-03-07T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T15:54:14","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-55-agave-americana-variegata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/07\/plant-a-day-2020-day-55-agave-americana-variegata\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 55) Agave americana variegata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like many plant fanatics, I always try to bring a piece of my vacation home with me upon my return\u2013usually in the form of seeds. This Agave was an ambitious smuggling effort. Leon and I had traveled to the south of Spain and stayed in a wonderful hostel\/hotel in Torremolinos. We swam in the beautiful pool there and ate in the restaurant that the hostel owner ran in the evenings. It was a magical few days. I noticed one of the agaves had pups starting around the mother plant, so I popped off a tiny one and slipped it into one of my socks in my suitcase. Not only did I avoid prison, but the offset rooted when I got home and has been growing very slowly ever since. That was about 1997. <\/p>\n\n\n\n