Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden Each leaf is edged with

Each leaf is edged with a wide green border that ages to gold

Instead of the typical golden center

it makes a 3' wide mat in one season but doesn't show tendencies to eat plants that it surrounds

adorned with obscenely large and floriferous pendulous spikes of creamy yellow flowers starting in early April (in NC)

Agave desmettiana Desert Sunset White Garden Each leaf is edged withThe year was 2008 I was walking through the Home Depot parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, gazing at the median strip plantings of yellow edged Agave desmettiana, when I spied one plant that stood out from the others. The mutated plant had much wider than normal golden yellow margins surrounding each soft, fleshy green leaf. I returned home with a pup which produced a slowly offsetting specimen to 3' tall x 3' wide that we are pleased to finally