Agave bracteosa Squidget Deer Resistant Plants each highlighted with red spots

each highlighted with red spots and attractive blotching

When the plants mature

If you continue to plant in your shade garden throughout the fall and winter

it transforms to parchment white

If you get hungry in the garden

Agave bracteosa Squidget Deer Resistant Plants each highlighted with red spots(aka: Paleoagave bracteosa) We picked up this dwarf seed grown Agave bracteosa in 2004 from California's Rancho Soledad Nursery, and christened it Agave 'Squidget'. Since that time, it's formed a 6" tall x 15" wide, offsetting rosette in our rock garden much smaller than the typical 4' wide rosettes of Agave bracteosa. As with all Agave bracteosa, spines are not optional on this species, so you'll have to make do with the scabrous (rough) green