The year was 2008…I was walking through the Home Depot parking lot in Phoenix, Arizona, gazing at the median strip plantings of yellow-edged Agave desmettiana, when I spied one plant that stood out from the others. The mutated plant had much wider than normal golden yellow margins surrounding each soft, fleshy green leaf. I returned home with a pup which produced a slowly offsetting specimen to 3′ tall x 3′ wide that we are pleased to finally introduce in 2014, as Agave desmettiana ‘Desert Sunset’.
