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Agave celsii 'Nova' - A beautiful solitary rosette forming succulent to 2 feet tall by 3 feet wide with broad blue-gray leaves that are broadest toward the middle and have faint longitudinal lines and reddish-brown regularly spaced small spines along the margins. This fast-growing plant blooms at a relatively young age, producing an erect spike to 6 feet tall with short peduncles, each bearing multiple pale-yellow flowers.
Plant in full sun in well-drained soil. It withstood the frosts of January 2007 in a garden in a cold location of Santa Barbara where temperatures dropped to around 22 F and this plant was not damaged.
We purchased our original stock of this plant from Rancho Soledad Nursery in January 2005 and were told that it was from seed collected by that nursery's then breeder, Kelly Griffin. We used the name we purchased this plant as, but the structure of the inflorescence with flowers on short branches indicates that this plant is likely a hybrid and not actually a form of the species Agave celsii, which is now more properly called Agave mitis (see our listing of Agave celsii for more about this). Because of its tendency to bloom at such an early age we discontinued production of this plant in 2011.
Information displayed on this page about Agave celsii 'Nova' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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