Puya mirabilis

Description

Puya mirabilis is an attractive member of the Puya family producing roseates of narrow lightly spiky lush green green leaves forming clumps 30 or 40cm across. Where it differs from most other Puya is its naturally free flowering habit producing spikes up to 90cm high holding pretty trumpets of yellow/green flowers rich in nectar and loved by bees and butterflies. Being a member of the bromeliad family, a group of plants that usually grow clinging to either tree trunks, rocky cliffs or grow in shallow stony soils Puya mirabilis needs free draining soils. Ideally plant in a sunny mild location where it can be reasonably hardy in milder parts of the U.K.  In colder locations it can easy be grown as a container plant and brought undercover during the colder months.