Agaves around town, the final chapter of Agave Week

Here we are again, more agaves! My completely random and unscientific survey of how Portland agaves are doing post-December storm begins again at this building in SE Portland, home to the "Attitude of Gratitude" mural.I'd forgotten all about these agaves until I randomly drove near and caught sight of the mural. This planting is in inner SE, Portland's "banana belt". I'm not going to try and guess the species here, but they're looking remarkably good considering how exposed they are people who couldn't really give a rat's ass about plants.
People who would probably destroy them just for the "fun" of it.
This one looked pretty solid even tough it was being swallowed by surrounding ceanothus.
I appreciate that whoever abandoned this electric scooter didn't just lay it on the agaves.
Can you say agave cramscaping? Ya, all FOUR plants look pretty good. Minus the sidewalk damage.
Agave 'Sharkskin' with some spotting.
But in this whole row only that one showed damage.
Yes that's a piece of PVC pipe dropped on this beautiful agave.
But it looks strong enough to shrug it off—it also looks to not be the first time it had to suffer such indignities.
Rounding the corner these all look great, the ceanothus looks much worse than the agaves! (the leaves are awfully brown)
My next stop was at Minh's garden (first visit here)...
Everything looked fabulous, here the left-hand side of the front garden...


Looking at the hellstrip now. I think this bowl had been placed to protect the top of the Agave victoriae-reginae.
That empty pot, filled with rocks? Ya, someone stole a palm right out of this hellstrip. Looking closer I'd say the palm on the right is perhaps suffering from spear pull. Unless of course it's just passersby doing bad things.
This second Agave victoriae-reginae looks good, even while it's protection is not doing it's job.
I don't think whatever is doing damage to this palm is winter weather related, this looks like an older problem.
Hellstrip view...
Front garden view...
Close-ups of the agaves on the right hand side of the front sidewalk.

Minh wasn't home, so I was trying to get as many close-ups as possible, without actually walking into the garden. Here I was aiming at the planting area under the front window.
Same area focus, but from the other side.
A couple final hellstrip shots from the street-side.
Dreamy palm!
This house and garden changed hands last year. It's good to see the new owners haven't changed anything up, and all the agaves looked damage-free, at least from the public sidewalk.




Heading back towards NE Portland now, and I stopped to check out this trio of Agave ovatifolia.
These were recently-ish corralled in this stone circle.
Thankfully they don't seem to be minding the treatment.
The only damage I saw was that one leaf.
Just down the street a ways...
A NOID that looks like winter never happened.
We've been here before, also in NE Portland, not too far from my house, but along a ridge with a nice south facing rock wall.
The big guy looks good, from a distance at least. Two of his babies in my garden aren't looking so great, one already in the yard waste bin, and one headed that direction. Then again the growing conditions in my garden aren't nearly so favorable.
Ickiness on this one, but is it weather related? I'm not sure.
Pups from the larger plant also looking good.