The Garden journal August Challenge: Agave viviparous

    It always seems impossible... until it is done. 
                - Nelson Mandela

We are starting the month of August and again making the monthly report of our gardens around the world, and also the vacations are closer. I want to go to my favorite place, a small farm in Coro, Falcon state Venezuela. I have 06 months that I do not go, I am longing to see the plants of the garden that I left, hopefully they are alive because the weather has been quite strong, but it has also been raining. This is my entry to the Garden journal August Challenge.

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There you can clearly see the effect of the climate, every time it suffers a change, if the rainy season everything is green, but the land is sticky for being semi-arid and if it is summer, the landscape changes to see everything dry, but very dry. They tell me that these mountains used to be fresh, there were many centenary trees like snails, but since about 50 years ago man without knowledge has razed these trees to sell their wood, make their houses, and fences without control.

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Years ago the heat was quite uncomfortable, but we worked from 4:00 am to 2:00 pm, for this date we work from 5:00 am to 11:00 am, the sun is very intense, and we must protect our health to avoid heat stroke or heart attacks.

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In 2003 I had taken plants from the city between ornamental and fruit plants such as trinitarias, roses, palms, cayenas, also dates, oranges, lemons, mamones, tamarind, mangoes, grapes and others and had made a garden. While I was there I watered them for up to 2 months, they developed and even flowered, and the rainy season helped to maintain them until I returned again from vacation and everything went well until the period of extreme drought between 2010-2011. That year I went and got all the plants dried up like burned.

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That saddened me a lot, but I said to think about what alternative I was looking for to decorate the garden again, only the aloe vines, oregano, quiebrahacha, cardones, uvedas or acacias were left. They had to be plants native to the region.

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This area became xerophytic due to the excessive grazing of goats and cattle because the land was not left to rest as the books say. There were people who did not want to comply with the grazing periods in the corrals, so the soil lost the layer with the heavy rains, causing landslides and making ravines. Since 2012 we have been working, but we are not constant because we have to return to the city and those who are there do not want to maintain the garden.

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Well after so much drought I decided to plant agave viviparous scientific name maguey. A friend of mine had some plants that had grown in a disorderly way and were accumulated among them, and she wanted to eliminate them. I went with my son to extract those agave seedlings to plant them in the garden of the farm, that was 08 to 10 years ago, since some of them already gave the offspring. On my last visit to the place in February I photographed it, and it died, I got it completely dry, but it left countless offspring, what a way to die! I didn't see how beautiful it is when that scion grows, nor the beautiful bouquets of flowers that formed at the apex, nor the seed that comes out. But at some point I will experience it because I planted several.

Did you like to know about the agave, I am very interested in the subject?