Plant in full sun. Requires very little to no irrigation in coastal gardens and is hardy to at least 15° F. An attractive medium sized agave that is nice as a single specimen, massed in the succulent garden as a large scale groundcover or used in large pots.

Agave parryi var. huachucensis comes from south-eastern Arizona south to Chihuahua. This "King Clone", a name coined by Agave botanist, nurseryman and author Greg Starr, was first written about by Don Skinner in an article titled "Seeking the Elusive Agave huachucensis" in the July August 1961 issue of the Cactus and Succulent Society Journal (V33 N4).

Don Skinner's article so intrigued us that during the 2009 biennial convention of the Cactus and Succulent Society of America held in Tucson , a group that included Brian Kemble, John Bleck, Jeff Chemnick, Randy Baldwin, Ernst Van Jaarsveld and Allen Repashy sought to find the location between Sonoita and Patagonia that Skinner wrote about and photographed in his article. We were successful by talking to those that knew the area and also by matching the peaks in the background of Skinner's photographs. The site was visited, plants photographed and seed was collected. This seed yielded a single plant that was painstakingly vegetatively propagated until such time in 2024 that we had enough to put out a small crop in our field for sale. 

The information displayed on this page about Agave parryi var. huachucensis 'King Clone' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.