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Puya berteroniana is a large growing species from the foothills of the Andes in Chile.
It produces tall heads of densely packed blue-green flowers. It is one of the species that is
hardy on the coast locally and makes thick spiky clumps on Tresco. I have a single rosette at
present and have planted it in the Agave house for now. Eventually I would like to have it outside
on the side of a bank, and it will have to come out before it flowers (taller than the Agave house)
but this youngster looked too fragile to risk. Once it has savaged me a few times my heart might harden. I planted it outside in 2016 and it prospered initially but was killed in 2018 during the "Beast from the East". I planted another under a pine tree shortly after and it has survived so far (2024). |
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| 17th January 2014 | ||
