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Succulents and Arid Plants
For sculptural form, strong leaf shapes and sheer good looks few plants surpass succulents. Succulents are very versatile; they thrive in pots, can create great architectural forms around water features or rock gardens or sit happily in a relaxed informal border.
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Agave Americana
‘Century Plant' is an excellent, bold, architectural agave with long bulbous fleshy, and beware, spiky leaves that grow from a central rosette.
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Agave americana 'Marginata'
Variegated ‘Century Plant' is an excellent, bold, architectural agave with long bulbous fleshy, and beware, spiky leaves that grow from a central rosette.
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Agave desmettiana
‘Smooth Agave' has pale green coloured leaves, and produces a yellow flower spike in summer on mature plants.
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Agave sisalana 'Variegata'
Has large lanceolate leaves with thick points, sharp tips and generally smooth margins. The foliage is blue-green, and forms basal rosettes.
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Aloe arborescens
Multi-headed succulent with striking grey-green leaves arranged in attractive rosettes, and striking orange/red or yellow flower heads.
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Dasylirion longifolium
‘Mexican Grass Tree', has a spray of arching strap like leaves. With age the trunk becomes multi-stemmed.
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Strelitzia reginae
Bird of Paradise, excellent ornamental plant with spectacular and distinctive orange and blue flowers.
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Xanthorrea glauca
'Grass tree' is very slow growing and can live to up to 600 years old.
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Yucca elephantipes
Distinctive evergreen shrub which develops a thick, branching trunk which is reminiscent of an elephant's foot at the base.
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Yucca filamentosa
‘Adam's needle' produces dense clumps of stiff green leaves edged with fine curly hairs.
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Yucca filifera
‘St. Peter's Palm' is one of the largest Yuccas as well as one of the fastest growing.
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Yucca gloriosa
‘Spanish dagger' makes an impressive thick-stemmed succulent, rarely branching and crowned with a dense clump of sharp-pointed leaves.
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