Agave loferox Stairway to Heaven Israel Each plant of Athyrium 'Lady

Each plant of Athyrium 'Lady in Red' makes a slowly spreading patch to 3' in 5 years

The clumps are topped with 2' spikes of lavender flowers that delight hummingbirds in late summer

from which emerge 2' tall stems clothed in egg-shaped green leaves

080' elevation

our plants are from cultivated hand crosses

Agave loferox Stairway to Heaven Israel Each plant of Athyrium 'LadyIn 2009, we hand crossed flowering plants of Agave lophantha with pollen from Agave x pseudoferox 'Logan Calhoun' (our name for plants we now believe to be hybrids of Agave americana, asperrima, and gentryi, and incorrectly grown as Agave salmiana var. ferox). Our seed strain, which we introduced in 2011 as Agave 'Stairway to Heaven', is fairly consistent in combining traits from each parent the upturned leaf tips of Agave gentryi and asperrima, the