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Variegated Smooth Agave
Agave desmettiana ‘Variegata’
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Supplied in 45L
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Variegated Smooth Agave - Agave desmettiana ‘Variegata’
The variegated form of the Smooth Agave replaces plain blue-green with a broad creamy yellow band down each leaf margin, and that stripe does most of the design work in a dark or shaded planting. Agave desmettiana ‘Variegata’ keeps the same soft, arching, essentially spineless leaves and the same graceful urn-shaped rosette as the plain form, but grows a little smaller and reads much brighter. It is the agave people choose when the bed needs light rather than another block of grey.
Why Variegated Smooth Agave
Cream Margins: A wide creamy yellow edge on every leaf lifts dark gravel, charcoal render and shaded corners.
Spine-Free Leaves: Soft-tipped and only finely toothed, so it is safe close to paths, pools and seating.
Slightly Smaller: A touch more compact than the plain species, which suits pots and tighter beds.
Fast for an Agave: Reaches display size within a few seasons rather than a decade.
Produces Pups: Offsets at the base continue the planting after the parent rosette flowers.
Ideal Applications
Contrast Planting: Set against dark foliage, black mulch or dark render where the variegation carries the scheme.
Entry Pots: Matched pairs in tall containers either side of a door.
Poolside Beds: Safe leaf tips and low litter make it well suited to pool surrounds.
Bright Courtyards: Adds light to enclosed spaces that receive strong but partly filtered sun.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): Not used for screening. Massed at 0.9 to 1.1m between rosettes.
Spacing (feature/avenue): 1.5 to 2m as repeated accents or matched pairs.
Best Planting Season: Spring and summer.
Soil & Drainage: Free-draining sandy or gritty soil. Frost tender, so avoid cold hollows and unprotected inland sites.
Establishment Care: Water fortnightly through the first warm season, then only in prolonged dry weather. Give it bright light but shelter the plant from extreme afternoon sun in hot inland districts, as the cream tissue in the leaf margin scorches more readily than green tissue.
Plant Details
Height: 0.7 to 1m
Width: 0.8 to 1.1m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen, green with broad creamy yellow margins
Light: Full sun to part shade, with protection from harsh inland afternoon sun
Native to: Cultivated form of a Mexican species
Flower Colour: Yellow, once at the end of the rosette's life
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







