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The first picture has a century plant growing in my garden. The second two are of the century plant growing next to it which I managed to kill (unintentionally). It takes a real brown thumbed person to kill a century plant!
Spotted on Nov 3, 2011
Submitted on Nov 3, 2011
3 Comments
martinl, the good looking one was also rotten at the core and I've taken it out. A friend told me they die like this when they get no water at all, and I had been gone for a month, and didn't water before I went, so I think that's what killed them.
I'm going to replace them with a Toyon shrub which is native to this area and attracts birds.
Since the other one looks so good, you might consider the next one was lost at the hands of a parasite, fungus etc. The cause may not be due to the color of your thumb=)
RIP Century Plant! :))