On 13/5/08 21:46, in article 4829fe3a$0$10639$fa0fcedb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"someone" <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
<snip>
>>>
>>
>> Where are you growing Puyas and Agaves outdoors?! Or are they in pots?
>> The
>> Abbey gardens in Tresco have both and I'm not aware of any notices
>> anywhere.
>> It might be worth your peace of mind to take out a one day insurance
but a
>> few notices saying "Do not touch the plants, some of them bite" should
do
>> it
>> in terms of a bit of commonsense. You could, perhaps, print of little
>> leaflets that give a brief history of these plants and *why* they
'bite'!
>> --
>
> Good point about the Abbey Gardens. I've grown several Puyas from seed,
and
> the largest one (only about 2' high) spent the winter in a pot outside
the
> back door, the rest overwintered in the greenhouse. My agave is now
very
> elderly (grown from a tiny bulbil in 1976) and quite large, about 4'
high x
> 4' wide. It lives in a pot, weighs about 80 lbs. and spends the winter
> indoors in front of the French doors, providing a very effective burglar
> deterrent. We have to borrow a trolley from the local pub to ****ft it
> inside/outside twice a year. Some of its offspring, however, spend the
> winter in pots near the pond with only a few blackened leaves, otherwise
OK.
>
> We spent a weekend in St. David's in Wales recently and visited an
extremely
> interesting nursery/garden centre near the middle of the town, full of
> exotic plants. Unfortunately I didn't find out its name, even though I
> bought a couple of plants there. But this man had a giant Puja growing
in
> the centre of his nursery, it was about 15 feet tall, and had a flower
stalk
> extending up to about 25 feet and about to flower. I will just have to
go
> back to St. David's and have another look.
>
> someone
>
>
I wonder if David Hill knows this nursery's name? As I suggested before,
the story of the Puya and its supposed methods of feeding itself could
make
an interesting little story for you to hand out to people.
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'
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