General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 5b -26.1 °C (-15 °F) to -23.3 °C (-10 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Plant Height: 40-60 inches (100 - 150 cm)
Plant Spread: 32-40 inches (80 - 100 cm0
Leaves: Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Fall
Uses: Groundcover
Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Needs specific temperature: germination is slow and erratic, don't throw away your container after 1 or 2 germinated
Suitable for wintersowing
Sow in situ
Start indoors
Can handle transplanting
Other info: Only sow indoors on a cool place

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Common names
  • Agave-Leaved Sea Holly

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Location: Botanical Garden der Universität Oldenburg
Date: 2014-07-23
Location: Botanical Garden of Copenhagen
Date: 2008-06-23
Location: Bide A Wee Cottage garden, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2010-07-07
Location: Botanical Garden of Copenhagen
Date: 2014-07-23
Location: Botanical Garden of Copenhagen
Date: 2008-07-09
Location: Botanical Garden of the University of Utrecht
Date: 2024-09-25
Location: Belsay Hall gardens, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2009-08-05
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2019-05-10
Location: Bide A Wee Cottage garden, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2008-06-25
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2017-07-14
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2018-07-15
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-08-24
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-05-04
Location: Bide A Wee Cottage garden, Northumberland UK
Date: 2017-08-09
Location: Floors castle garden, Scotland
Date: 2013-08-12
Location: Potomac MD
Date: 2019-04-27
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2018-07-22
Location: Hessenhof
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire UK
Date: 2013-06-26
Location: My garden in Belgium
Date: 2011-08-24
18 months after sowing. It will grow bigger later
Location: Appeltern
Date: 2020-07-17
Location: Floors castle garden, Scotland
Date: 2013-08-12
Location: Bide A Wee cottage garden, near Morpeth, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2009-07-08
Location: Hessenhof
Location: Hessenhof
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-06-05

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