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Sisal Agave
Agave sisalana
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
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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.
Sisal Agave - Agave sisalana
Sisal is the fibre agave, grown commercially for rope and matting, and in the landscape it makes a tall, upright, sword leaved rosette that is markedly more vertical than the arching century plant. Agave sisalana carries smooth edged grey green leaves without the hooked marginal teeth of most agaves, though the dark terminal spine is sharp. It is planted where a hard, upright succulent form is wanted on ground that receives no water and little care.
Why Sisal Agave
Upright silhouette: Leaves are held more erect than in most agaves, giving a narrow vertical form rather than a spreading dish.
Smooth margins: Leaf edges are largely toothless, so only the tip spine needs consideration in placement.
Extreme resilience: Tolerates drought, heat, poor stony soil, salt wind and total neglect.
Self renewing clump: Offsets and bulbils replace the parent rosette, so a planting perpetuates itself.
Grey blue tone: The cool grey green leaf colour contrasts strongly with warm gravel, rusted steel and rendered walls.
Ideal Applications
Arid style garden: A structural anchor in a gravel garden with cacti, aloes and drought tolerant grasses.
Erosion control on slopes: The strong root system and suckering habit stabilise dry banks and cuttings.
Coastal exposure: Copes with salt laden wind on beachside blocks where irrigation is impractical.
Boundary deterrent: Spine tipped upright leaves make an effective, entirely passive barrier along a fence line.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.2 to 1.8m for a continuous barrier
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2 to 2.5m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn, into warm dry soil
Soil & Drainage: Free draining sandy, gravelly or rocky soil of low fertility; mound on any site that holds winter moisture
Establishment Care: Water monthly for the first three months to settle roots, then withhold irrigation entirely. Remove offsets each year or two to keep the clump within its allotted space, particularly in warm northern districts where sisal spreads readily if left unmanaged.
Plant Details
Height: 1.5 to 2m of foliage; the flower mast can reach 5 to 6m once at the end of the rosette's life
Width: 1.5 to 2.5m, spreading further by offsets
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun
Native to: Southern Mexico
Flower Colour: Greenish 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.







