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Yucca filamentosa |
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| Common name |
Adam's needle |
| Family |
agavaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial (Z5-10) |
| Flowers |
white (June) |
| Size |
4-5 ft |
| Light |
sun |
| Cultural notes |
not fussy |
Evergreen strappy foliage in a clump. Upright flower stalks in early summer bursting with ivory bell-shaped flowers. The flowers don't last too long in our garden, but the foliage maintains an architectural presence all along. I haven't figured out exactly which conditions work best - some neighbors on my block have beautiful, multi-stalked specimens that obviously receive little or no care, while mine always seem scragglier. Maybe it's another plant that thrives on neglect...
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: rock garden annex, berm, front yard About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| paul | Jul 12, 2005 | Hi.
Great pics (Yucca filamentosa)!
You say "flowers don't last too long in our garden." What's long? What's short? What's average? A week? A month? 3 months? I can't find that info anywhere.
Also, i'm trying to find out if i can expect it to flower again next year, or if i have to wait for a pup to grow. And if so, after how many years do they flower?
Thanx 4 everything!
paul
I think the flowers are in their prime for only about a week, but maybe a little longer. They do bloom year after year, once they get established. How quickly they flower depends on what you start with - a sizeable division would be much faster than a seedling. |
| Gordon Downey | Aug 03, 2005 | Excellent information about Yucca filamentosa....I have one in my garden (in a dry river bed) It has flowered in a marvellous way.....What do I do now that the flowers have gone. I expect it seeds! Do I cut the needle or let it be?
For many plants, I favor leaving the flowerstalk after it blooms, for ornament and for the birds. But I find the spent stalk of the yucca unattractive, and remove it when it drops its flowers. I've not seen yucca seedlings - it prefers to spread by roots, in my experience. |
| Valentina | Dec 27, 2005 | I have several zone 4 Yucca filamentosa in containers - it never bloomed last summer? I have kept 2 inside in pots -how can I get these to bloom?
Live in Alberta's Canadian rockies |
| codrinxyz, romania | Jun 04, 2008 | no water, full sun, forget it and you will get a very beautiful and little longer last flower. |
| Carol | Jun 06, 2008 | I like your site, you have right to the point answers and great pictures!
Thanks,
Carol |
| Tracy | Jul 19, 2008 | I have had a yucca for two years and was told it would only bloom every 10 years. It bloomed the first year I had it with a heavy thick stalk. I left it over the winter and went to break it off this spring...it is very wood-like and I was only able to break it off so far. Is it something I should let soften on its own or do I cut it off.
Some of my neighbors have yuccas that bloom every year.
Yucca flowerstalks can indeed be hard. I would use pruning shears to lop it off - but its presence is unlikely to interfere with flowering of the plant. |
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