Hesperaloe Species, Giant Hesperaloe, New Mexico False Yucca, Samandoque

A rather dramatic, architectural, and waterwise herbaceous plant. It does not form a stem. The long stiff evergreen leaves are rolled. T...Read Moreheir color is bright green/lime green. It makes a spineless, user-friendly garden plant.

Blooms in summer, not spring. The flowers are not nearly as attractive as those of H. parviflora. A few hybrids between the two species have been developed, generally with pink flowers.

This species is being developed commercially for production of high-quality paper fiber. [HYPERLINK@hort.purdue.edu]

In Tucson, we know this as 'Giant Hesperaloe'. I have three of these, on a west facing wall, where they get lots of reflected heat. Sin...Read Morece my drip system is not working in that particular bed, I will vouch for this one's drought-tolerance. However, it hasn't flowered for me, whereas several Hesperaloe parviflora planted at the same time in an adjacent bed had really nice flower spikes from spring to autumn this year.