Meet the 'Late Bloomer'

     Compared to other plants, this is a late bloomer. This agave americana was a squatty thing for several decades before it suddenly shot up and burst into outrageous yellow flowers. But it doesn’t blossom until its internal resources tell it to, which is good news for those of us who feel like we’re still squatty plants while our peers have shot ahead of us.     
     Most of us don’t really “take off” until the second half of our lives because our intelligence doesn’t fully develop un...