Agave alert!!!

I love agave alerts!  Agaves are "alertive" by their very nature with the pokes - which will surely let you know of their presence -  their striking architectural beauty, and even better when they have a bright orange SALE sign! Epic! At least I thought so. They even had my agave bracteosa calamar!  That coupled with clear skies, good food and beach visit made for a most splendid sunday afternoon.  I kind of scammed my way into this.  I was going out for lunch with my sister in West Vancouver and it really would be a waste not to just stop in to North Van on the way home since I "had" to go to Maple Leaf Garden Centre anyways.

Check out the glorious colour of these spikes!  With glowing red and orange goodness like that, I had to buy this beautiful little agave parryi truncata.

After seeing this one, I'm pretty much convinced that my unkown agave is some variety of parryi.  It would make sense with how it handled last winter.

And finally!  How long have I been talking about my want of an agave bracteosa? too long.  The wait is over!

This guy has some abuse to him.  I have noticed that right across the board with agave bracteosa that I have seen.  People are just not treating them with the love and care that these little beauties deserve.  It not only made me happy that I finally got one, but also that I was giving this one a hope of better life in the palm garden. #agave respect!

So all in all Sunday was an epically fantastical day.  Now I just have to clean up the mess from Saturday afternoon's storm.  Lets just say the yard looks like it was hit with a hurricane.