Are the blooms really red, or are they pink or coral? I have a bed with purples and pinks that I am considering them for.
red yucca question
They are more of an orange coral, but very pretty.
here is a picture of my red yucca - hesperaloe - the color is pretty accurate - the flowers may be a bit deeper in color when they first open....there is also a yellow variety, but my plant is young and has not yet flowered - AND, the hesperaloe is winter hardy in Zone 6 !!
That is amazing...I thought of them more as a xeriscaping plant..
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well, it gets pretty doggone dry here - I have them planted in a bed that also has Yucca Recurvafolia, a couple agaves and opuntias - try a few new things every year. Of course, the planting medium is a well draining one and the bed is in full sun....a friend of mine also has a similar grouping and his Yucca Recurvafolia is over 4' tall !!! Here in good old S Indiana
LOL...well, I'll be darned...I thought I could come up there and cool off..
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Here is a close up.
Decklife....Have you got a Native Rock Rose in your bed? It is a beautiful long blooming (Mar-Nov) full sun plant. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/57756/
Love the native rock rose...that's one I have to get!!
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The rock rosemallow is gorgeous! I am very fond of the Malvaviscae family - have 10 tropical/exotic hibiscus, a native turk's cap, a mexican turk's cap, a Hibiscus cannabinus, three varieties of hardy hibiscus (H. moscheutos "Lord Baltimore," "Pinot Noir" and Burgundy something) plus some Texas star hibiscus (struggling somewhat in our "bog"). I am constantly fighting in our salty soil and high wind environment to keep some supposedly hardy things alive (lost many lantanas, for example, as well as some butterfly weed). But have had pretty decent success with palms, hibiscus, portulaca, and ice plant. The tropical hibiscus are in a semi-raised bed and are doing quite nicely. The others are closer to the salt and more recently planted so are not doing as well.
In my purple and pink bed, there's also some yellow and blue (if the plumbago survives). I have gold star esperanza, plumbago, Indigo Spires salvia, gaura, Mexican heather, bulbine, society garlic, the surviving butterfly weed (there are 5 of them), duranta and a triangle palm.
I don't think I've got room for the rock rose there unless something else dies. Which could happen!! I have never seen this for sale around here.
About one dying....
Somewhere on Dave's someone said about perennials.....
If one doesn't come back the next year, chances are I forgot I planted it! LOL! I think about that everytime I think about something I "used" to have.
Now that's a good way to think about it!
red yucca close up-pink, not coral
