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My Century Plant is an Agave Americana. It blooms every 10 to 20 years and then dies, but sends off offshoots which grow into new plants. In this case, it created two, each of which is now blooming at the same time. I think this plant and its offshoots have bloomed more than twice in the 20 years I’ve been here but I may be wrong. I do remember it blooming at least once before. The blooms are about 8 inches in diameter and the honeybees and wasps love them!
For Cee’s Flower of the Day prompt
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I love this, Judy — I’ve seen many century plants in bloom, but don’t remember ever looking at the individual flowers — it’s beautiful! And the photos with the narrow dof and colorful backgrounds really enhance the century plant flowers! Thanks for sharing!
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You are very welcome.
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What a beautiful plant.
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I love these. My experience growing them in San Diego is that they bloomed whenever they wanted, but the myth is lovely.
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Did yours die after they bloomed? My regular aloes bloom frequently and just get bigger and bigger but the ones called Century plants always die after they bloom so thankfully don’t bloom that often.
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Yes, they died down after they bloomed and their “kids” grew and bloomed later. The most prolific was in San Diego about a mile from the bay so it was bathed in ocean mist as well as getting watered. It was in the corner of a small lawn at my apartment building. My others were less prolific, but still every two or three years.
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But you didn’t move to Colorado from San Diego did you? You were just in the process of moving when I first started following your blog. Was it 14 years ago?
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I moved to Colorado from Descanso, a small town 35 miles east of San Diego. In San Diego, I lived in an apartment for three years and then we bought a house is another part of San Diego, so two San Diego houses before I moved to Descanso. I started this blog in 2013 so only 8 years. 🙂
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