A 10 minute walk from our home is a beautiful greenhouse called, "The Allen Gardens." For the next two weeks, an agave plant will be blooming there. The reason this is special is because the plant is monocarpic (it flowers only once). It lives for about 80 years, then blooms once, and dies. Agave plants are two feet tall for most of their lives. When they begin to bloom, a stalk grows from the center of the plant to be about 20 feet tall. The flowers blossom at the top of the stalk. The entire blooming process takes only five months.
The agave plant at the Allen Gardens has grown so tall that they had to break the roof to accommodate the blossoms. We went to see it today. It's a once in a lifetime experience.
Oh, and we also saw 20 banana plants, which is awesome because we live downtown Toronto.
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