Picture This: End of the Line

My entry for Gardening Gone Wild Picture This Photo Contest for November


It’s the end of the line for my Agave Sisalina, after throwing out a bloom stalk soaring to almost thirty feet. But see all the bulbils ready to start a new life.

Its also end of the line for the original Cephalocereus millspaughii column, broken in hurricane Omar last year, but with a new column growing atop the old. In some islands this cactus is known as the “Dildo Cactus” and I agree with the writer who said “it is hard to imagine how a spiny and threatening cactus conjured up the image that lends this cactus its common name”.