Today I transplanted several yucca plants to our driveway entrance (where nothing else will grow!...and we're rural, its not a big deal if it stays there forever).
Does anyone have any experience with these? I found them to be connected to each other by a huge, barely covered, horizontal root connection....much like an iris....with just a little bit of vertical root for each plant.
One is just about to bloom. I figure that transplanting will arrest that activity.
Are these the type of plants that die after blooming? Some of the taller yuccas had dead brown skirts and living green tops. Is it possible to trim away the dead brown leaves to show the trunk?
I also transplanted some prickly pear cactus, and all of it is located beneath a big pine tree at our entrance. Its very Texas-y.
Laura
Native East Texas Yucca
You can trim off the leaves, I am not sure if the top will die off after bloom or not. I have aeveral here from diffrent places and they all have diffrent habits of growth. None of mine have bloomed yet (they are still a few years from that) But they are a great plant in the Texan garden. What type of Prickly Pear do you have? I have several and if you are coming to the Dallas Plant Swap the last weekend in October I will make sure to have some of the other for you.
Good luck - sounds like you are well on your way. I would look for a sage bush or two and maybe a wagon wheel or cowskull just to give it the ump. Sounds great - Mitch
I have a large Spanish bayonet yucca that is getting quite big, but hasn't bloomed yet either, it is about 5 feet tall and very heavy, and since it is on a slope and we had so much rain it started to lean, so we had to give it some support.
I can't wait for it to bloom.
Josephine.
I've got all sorts of yuccas and agaves in my garden...and they have yet to bloom as well, but I sure do love them. I've also got some purple prickly pear and thornless pear pads growing near them.... What with all of the rain....I've got new pads coming out everywhere.....!
Melanie :)
I HATE spanish bayonet yucca. We had it next to the sidewalk and I was always getting stuck! Something about it makes it hurt for days.
You are right Nada, it can hurt , but we have totally out of the way, so we can approach it
carefully, the blooms can be beautiful.
Josephine.
I have the tall yucca's and put them along the front of a house to keep people from breaking in. Also in the front yard as a natural fence. If it leans over you should be careful..any part of it touching the ground will root and make a million more... Which is great, if you want them to build a wall, eventually the blooms will peek up - mine took a decade. They are still alive though, and if they do decide to croak, they have left more pups then there was from their litter to take their place.
Did they bloom for you more than once?
Is the Spanish bayonet the same as the Spanish Dagger, the name that I'm most familiar with? (bad sentence structure, lol) I've got 3 large ones in amongst alot of my natives...so I had to learn to clip the tips off after getting poked too many times. It feels like a hypodermic needle! Plus it leaves a horrible bruise on my tender skin...
Melanie :)
Hi Melanie, yes they are the same here is a link showing it in bloom;
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/ornamentals/natives/yuccatreculeana.htm
Josephine.
Is this the one they are talking about in the news that makes tequila?
Nada, tequila comes from the Blue Agave... http://www.itequila.org/made.htm
Melanie :)