Mangave ‘Falling Waters’

Leaves arch and cascade, making this agave hybrid look like it’s carved from pure jade stone.
height 1–2
width 2–3in
tolerates Cold, Heat, Pots, Wind
water
needs		 Low
water
info		 Mangave are drought-tolerant, but they’ll look their best when given summer water every week or two. Like their manfreda relatives, they prefer more summer water than agaves.
hardy
to		 20F
exposure Part Shade – Full Sun
indoor
outdoor		 Outdoor
drainage In Ground: Cactus Mix, In Pots: Cactus Mix
fertilizing All Purpose
origin Hybrid
california
native		 No
sunset
zones		 9, 12–24

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Growing Notes

Mangave are low-maintenance plants, requiring little attention to look fabulous in your garden. If the lower leaves start to get a bit brown at the tips they can be removed.
Patterns and colors become more intense with more sun, so place them in as much sun as possible, unless you are inland where the sun is particularly hot, and then you should avoid afternoon sun. They are not as tolerant of hot sun as agaves.
Slugs and snails can do damage to the softer leaved mangaves, so keep an eye out for them and treat accordingly.
On pupping varieties, pups can be removed and replanted once they have their own roots.

Special Interest

Mangaves are a relatively recent addition to the garden world, and we’re excited to see new hybrids almost continuously! These are an intergeneric hybrid between agaves and manfredas. They have the desirable stiff form of agaves, but are less pokey, more supple and colorful like manfredas. They also grow much faster than agaves, reputedly twice as fast as their parent agave. Confoundingly the genus manfreda has since been folded into the genus agave, and so theoretically mangaves are just agave hybrids. Commonly, we all continue to call them mangaves though!