Predictably, they are becoming too large for the garden, so we plan to thin the “herd.” We also have been growing several seedlings of an agave relative called Shishi hemp (Furcraea parmentieri).

It doesn’t exactly jive with the agaves, birds of paradise and Mondo grass we’ve come to expect from the typical Perth garden ...

This plant is in the Agave sub-genus littaea. Photo taken in the Honolulu’s Koko Crater Botanical Garden. (Courtesy Diderot ...