Yuccas are another one of my favorite landscaping go to here on the coast of Maine. They take the cold and moisture with ease. 

Who’s growing yucca faxoniana? Is it typical to be slow growing when young….like should have bought a way bigger size slloooowww 😭🤣

I grow two outside, grown from seed and they are really slow. Hopefully one day the speed up otherwise I won't see them flowering any more 😀

But maybe it's only a problem of temperatures and sunshine

Eckhard 

Yep, slow N' steady.. Not a plant for the impatient Grasshopper..  Plant and enjoy while you get to enjoy it..

  Think they can start flowering at a relatively short size ..say in the 6-9ft range.. So, if you live long enough, ya' might just get lucky..

just few pics from garden, cant wait what will they do in this season after very warm winter

31 minutes ago, akaranus said:

just few pics from garden, cant wait what will they do in this season after very warm winter

I love seeing pics of your garden, thank you for sharing! I’ve noticed a lot of people on Facebook in Europe have fantastic yuccas, clearly you do!!!!

14 minutes ago, teddytn said:

I love seeing pics of your garden, thank you for sharing! I’ve noticed a lot of people on Facebook in Europe have fantastic yuccas, clearly you do!!!!

Thanks..more time i spend with plants and in garden yuccas are becoming more favourite to me..such wonderfull nature sculptures and without any worries about watering or winter..people love them here(maybe to much western movies in the 70-80-ies 🙂) ..there are some serious nurseries in Spain and Italy so you can find them relatively cheap, smaller ones of course..faxoniana maybe keeping price very high more than the others...

Looks like you have a perfect climate.

Eckhard 

2 hours ago, Palmensammler said:

Looks like you have a perfect climate.

Eckhard 

It was solid 9a mediterranean type..but since 2018 we are at 10a as for absolute minimume..with long hot sumners and yuccas love it...

I remember that when I was a little bit north of Split for holidays with my family many years ago the climate was very warm.  But in this area orange trees had been the dominating plants.

But we all loved the area.

Greetings 

Eckhard  

rostrata is flowering 

1 hour ago, akaranus said:

rostrata is flowering 

VERY nice   Lots of good stuff tucked away in there.  Blue walls are a great accent as well.

there were a couple yucca at a site i was working at which were going to be run over by the skid steer so i dug them up and brought them home last spring... then in the late fall i planted them up north near midland ontario canada 

i went up there yesterday and it looks like they survived the winter! although it was a mild winter...

 

 

Yucca Aloifolia. Princeton, North Carolina

I went to my garden center today and they had Adam’s needle which I’ll plant one out in the front of my house eventually and they had the indoor cane yucca and what not. No rostrata. I have a question so the only available spot for one is the north side of my house which doesn’t receive much son maybe 3-6 hours a day could it grow there? I could probably figure something out and get a new spot. Maybe the space I have in mine gets more sun idk. This is for Adam’s needle 

 Various Yucca  ..and friends.

Y.  elata








Y. pallida






Y.  ....Not 100% sure.  Leaves suggest rostrata, but can't recall seeing them flower at such a short size.  Numerous specimens planted in front of the new Apartments though.










Hersperaloe funifera






Yerr' standard red - flowered Hesperaloe parviflora 







...And some yellows...  First shot is of a clump in a yard i'll be watching for seed later.

A few more Yucca










Fouquiera -something??  Not your standard Ocotillo and something  just doesn't look Boojum - enough to my eye..  F. diguetii crossed my mind.  Just a thought though.





Besides the Alluaudia i mentioned in the " Spring Flowers " Thread, something else you don't see planted much ..if at all... in local yards ..but should many more examples of.   Beaucarnea,  possibly your standard B. recurvata..

Literally the only one i recall seeing outside of what few examples are planted in local Botanical Gardens. 

Hopefully it will gain some size over the coming years.

Yucca faxoniana looking good this year, another year or two and should have some visible clear trunk 

Looks good 👍 

How old is it?

Eckhard 

Nothing special, just my favorite Yucca treculeana. This plant is a single headed and extremely glaucus.

The grasshoppers have been feasting on the leaves.

It’s been pretty quiet here for a while, wishing I had a yucca to post 🫤. Spectacular gallery here though.

Very old yucca recurvafolia Nashville, TN. Snake trunk heading vertical again 

Yucca rigida that I planted as a 1 gallon I believe 3 years ago. This had to be its 2nd summer, already got a little size to it. Last summer it flowered and so did the one up the hill. The one up the hill has 2 heads growing now, this one has 4!!Hard to tell from the pictures but from tip of horizontal leave to opposite tip it’s 5 feet across, going to be absolutely massive in a few more years

15 hours ago, teddytn said:

Yucca rigida that I planted as a 1 gallon I believe 3 years ago. This had to be its 2nd summer, already got a little size to it. Last summer it flowered and so did the one up the hill. The one up the hill has 2 heads growing now, this one has 4!!Hard to tell from the pictures but from tip of horizontal leave to opposite tip it’s 5 feet across, going to be absolutely massive in a few more years

stunning yucca, love that color. do they grow fast?

2 hours ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

stunning yucca, love that color. do they grow fast?

Honestly yeah, this is 3 years growth from a 1 gallon pot. We get 55-60” of rain a year and way colder that you are, would grow even faster for you 

On 2/15/2025 at 9:02 PM, TropicsEnjoyer said:

It’s been pretty quiet here for a while, wishing I had a yucca to post 🫤. Spectacular gallery here though.

It's chigger season and all of my yuccas are in their feeding zone.

1 hour ago, teddytn said:

Honestly yeah, this is 3 years growth from a 1 gallon pot. We get 55-60” of rain a year and way colder that you are, would grow even faster for you 

Wow that’s not bad. I wish I could have a bigger collection of cool yuccas like that one. Space is an issue for me though. So far my rarest yucca is a silver anniversary which has a similar color to rigida or rostrata, but is clumping rather than trunking. And I have it in a pot instead. 

2 hours ago, TropicsEnjoyer said:

Wow that’s not bad. I wish I could have a bigger collection of cool yuccas like that one. Space is an issue for me though. So far my rarest yucca is a silver anniversary which has a similar color to rigida or rostrata, but is clumping rather than trunking. And I have it in a pot instead. 

My silver anniversary flowered this year, the full grown head of leaves is way smaller than I thought it would be…let me take a picture in a little bit 

Yucca Silver Anniversary planted last year. I assumed it would be around the size of standard filamentosa, not so much. Around the size of a smaller variegated color guard or similar. Should have taken a pic a few days ago when full of flowers. Zero pups so far as well. Very pretty though 

23 minutes ago, teddytn said:

I assumed it would be around the size of standard filamentosa, not so much

That’s strange. Maybe just the spot you planted it doesn’t get enough sun for it to get big? The one I have is about the same size, I bought it at that size too. Also has a bunch of potential offshoots I can see. But yours is beautiful regardless.

Bought as Yucca Harrimaniae not so sure now. It is still quite small but the leaflets are very wide for their length more similar to pallida. Also zero filaments 

4 hours ago, teddytn said:

Bought as Yucca Harrimaniae not so sure now. It is still quite small but the leaflets are very wide for their length more similar to pallida. Also zero filaments 

🤔...It could be,  though, as you've seen in the shots i've posted of pallida planted around here, leaves on a lot of em' are kinda floppy, not as upright as yours ( though i've seen a few  individual plants like yours ).. 

A cross maybe?? ..though again, not seeing any floppy-ness in any of those leaves..  ...like i could lightly press down on them and they'd rebound to the same position when released, maybe resist a little.  

Yucca Aloifolia flowering for the first time in Clarksville, TN 

Some flowering Yucca from Germany. 

Greetings Eckhard 

5 hours ago, Palmensammler said:

Some flowering Yucca from Germany. 

Greetings Eckhard 

Amazing collection of blue yuccas, what species?

Sorry, was away some time. Most are hybrids. I added the list of names below:

• Y. bright edge
• Y. recurvifolia "Red bells"
• Y. fila x rostrata 
• Y. arkansana "freemanii"
• Y. "Marcel"  (flaccida bright edge x thompsoniana)
• Y. fila/flaccida
• Y. fila/flaccida
• Y. floribunda 
• Y. filamentosa x baccata ( don't see any baccata in it)

Greetings Eckhard 

Our yuccas Outdoor.

A few recent pictures.

Yucca torreyi below the Davis Mountains in Texas

Extremely silver variant of Yucca torreyi in Big Bend. They grow in limestone along the border in the same regions as Yucca thompsoniana(Del Rio to Big Bend)and may be ancient hybrids.

Yucca rostrata

Yucca elata by the thousands outside Marfa, Texas.

Blue is looking a little worse for wear this year, after what appeared to be a normal spring and early summer, the extreme drought returned.  It  also appears that this plant has decided to split after blooming earlier in the year.

Does anyone have advice on hand pollinating yucca flowers, I have tried many times and I have never been successful. Is the stigma only receptive at night?

 

 

Morning and afternoon, Yucca filamentosa looking bright. It’s come a long way. Hope to see if flower next year.