Tough plant, variegated foliage, good at least to Zone 5......pretty white flowers...
Can you guess my name? More flowers to come, but I just opened this morning so I get my picture taken. :-)
Zones 5-11 Easy No-Care Tropical Look
Ohhh, whatever it is, sounds perfect to me!
gotta have it....
What no guesses????
I am 3" long x 2" wide (each flower).
I stand very tall above my variegated foliage.
I might not be thought of as "tropical", but with my beautiful profusion of flowers I can sure hold my own in a tropical garden.
is it mostly grown for it's foliage?
Yucca
Looks like one of the yuccas, like filamentosa.
Dravencat has it correct. As I said, not usually considered a true "tropical", but it works for me when it's in bloom. More images of the flowers as soon as more of them open.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/58531/index.html
Always did love those flowers. Do I win a chocolate chip cookie?
Oh I don't think so......but perhaps I could make you some "Yucca tea" or a poltice from the crushed petals. Met a very nice caretaker at a cactus preserve in Mexico back in February. In his broken English and my equally poor Spanish we managed to communicate pretty well. When he begged us to stay longer, I explained that I had a migraine and needed to get out of the heat......he promptly picked me some of the Yucca blooms and explained how I could crush the petals and make tea that would cure it in merely a "momento." :-)
Neato!! Now that I could go for.
Sorry I missed your post tropicalaria.......overlapped with my response to Dravencat. :-) You also are the winner of some Yucca tea!
YAY
Happenstance - Good thread - surprised people hit on it so quickly. I was just admiring my flowers up close today and recognized em immediately but thats only because I had just came in from "studying" the bugs on my blooms. I have one Yucca with a bloom spike over 6' tall right now. It is awesome. Wanted to add - these are very easy to propagate from tubers. I know because I accidently tilled one this winter. Cut up a bunch of little pieces of the tuberous roots, figured I had killed em and threw em in the compost pile. I discoved about 15 baby yucca's out there today ;-) My driveway is going to have a yucca border now. lol
Well, I missed Dravencat's response before I posted, so I didn't know it had been identified already :)
This is actually another plant, but by day's end it is further along than the one I shot this morning. Should be better by tomorrow.
Here is one of mine from afar showing the whole plant. This is the one that has a six foot plus flower spike on it.
Beautiful
That is so cool! Here I was going to say it was some type of lily....lol.
:) Donna
I said I gotta have it
and I do....LOL
Variegated Yucca? WOW. It was the variegated part that threw me....
Mine isnt variegated but I did discover a variegated mutant in my greenhouse the other day. Im hoping I can clone it - might have a new plant named after me. lol Out of the hundreds of scarlett dianthus seeds I planted - one came up very distinctly variegated. Im trying to find out more info on this sought after mutation - if anyone knows anything about it or a direction to point me in I would be appreciative.
Night view this evening.
They look so exotic. Beautiful
Some updated images of these beauties.
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Gee...every Spring I rip out my yucca, and every fall iiiiiiit's baaack! This year I decided to just leave it be. After seeing those photos, I'm glad I did! I had no idea they could be so pretty! Do they all flower? Are the flowers always white, or are there different varieties? (Am I dumb, or what ???)
Yucca rupicola grows wild in one spot here on the ranch. According to what I've read, you can eat the flowers, cooked the way squash blooms are. Haven't been able to try it yet because by the time I get the flowers to the house, they have wilted. I probably have to cut the entire stalk and up it water immediately.
http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/showSpeciesLBJShape.asp?shapeID=1&curGroupID=19&curPageNum=16&recnum=WF1841