Yucca Filamentosa

~ By Lady Kat ~

The plant I have chosen to discuss is the Yucca Filamentosa.

I bought this plant in July 2008 at my local nursery and the reason I wanted one of these wonderful plants was my neighbor. She bought one quite a few years ago and has survived our harsh winters wonderfully! One of the main reasons though was the beautiful ivory white flowers it produces and it is definitely the focal point of my front garden.

The Yucca Filamentosa is also known as Adam's Needle, and it is wonderful in sunny dry areas. It will grow to be 12 feet high!

I planted directly in the middle of one of main flower beds. It is the focal point as the flowers are an ivory white which goes great with the oranges, yellows and other variations of these colors that abound in my flowerbed.

When it was bought it was already fairly big - about 3 feet high and wonderfully grown by the producer. So far all that is needed is a bit of water - maybe twice a week, and of course I used peat moss and bone meal when I transplanted it from the original pot.

Care is minimal, water twice a week and uses an organic fertilizer once a month. It produces flowers most of July and into August then there is just the stem and leaves at the bottom which weathered this past winter very well as I already have new growth starting.

To prepare it for winter I just cut it back and let it die off. It’s a bit early as I only bought this plant late in the summer to give my feeling on it, but so far from what I have seen I am going to enjoy this plant for years to come!

I have included a picture of what this plant looks like below:

Borrowed from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucca_filamentosa

         

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