POV Gardening - Planting my most DANGEROUS Plant, a Ferocious Agave Ferox...

In today’s POV Gardening, I plant out an experimental but monstrous Agave salmiana var. Ferox - a huge, dangerously spiky plant armoured with teeth and savage spines! Agaves are drought tolerant plants ideally requiring a sheltered sunny spot with good airflow, perfect for creating a dry, desert or Mediterranean garden with impact. This one isn’t as tough and hardy as Agave montana or ovatifolia so hopefully a sheltered spot on my cliff face style rockery behind the huge granite boulders will give it the drainage it requires, especially for overwintering. This variety gets particularly large so if it makes it through our Northern winters it’ll make an imposing and unusual feature plant on my raised bank, against the backdrop of a cold hardy Jubutia hybrid feather palms, hardy yuccas and a large Chamaerops humilis ‘Vulcano’ palm. Definitely exciting planting and I’ll continue to add to and develop this area in future videos!

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0:00 Intro
0:42 Huge Jubutia hybrid palm & Chamaerops humilis 'Vulcano' hardy palms
1:25 Raised beds and creating well drained soil for palms & exotics
2:11 Agave salmiana var. Ferox - a savage, spiky beast of a plant!
5:15 Planting an exotic arid sunny garden with an Agave Ferox
15:53 Creating a dry rockery / scree garden with succulent planting pockets

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