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I popped down to HardyPalms in Bristol yesterday. It was to pay for my Yuccas. Nigel the owner was quite adamant that the Yucca Rostrata would be better off in my Vauxhall Astra than being shipped on a pallet. 😯 Amazingly I got it home. Nigel had also just received a container load of Palms from Brazil. His Trachy Novas were to die for.... good sized trunks with the leaves reaching nearly as high as the beautiful Yucca Rostrata .... my largest Yucca by far. The Yucca Elata has three heads and not two. The yucca treculeana is massive with a huge pot. Addiionally I bought a green Yucca Linearifolia with very long leaves but with damage... all arriving tomorrow on a pallet
Not a brill picture by any means but that Yucca Rostrata is over 7ft tall. The Trachycarpus Nova is well over double the size of my other Nova.
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Posted : 15/04/2013 8:23 pm
Hi Andy,
that Y. rostrata is a BEAUTY. It looks larger than 7 feet tall! 😯
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Posted : 15/04/2013 9:52 pm
That's a great Y. rostrata, Andy! You're lucky to have such a wide selection of plants available to you within the UK.
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Posted : 16/04/2013 1:07 am
Nice!
Biggest Nova I have ever seen too!
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Posted : 16/04/2013 9:57 am
Can not say WOW about the Nova 'cos I'm not a palmoholic (sorry Jim!), but yucca plants are just wonderful!
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Posted : 16/04/2013 11:29 am
You're lucky to have such a wide selection of plants available to you within the UK.
Ditto.
Tell Nigel to move to Canada please. 😆
Wow!
Barb
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Posted : 16/04/2013 1:23 pm
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Thanks for your kind comments 😀 The other plants arrived today on a pallet. Getting too old to shift them though 😆
I have to say I'm really taken with this Yucca Linearifolia. It will take pride of place in the Garden
I have never seen leaves so long 8) Just a shame about the damage to the top leaves.
The Yucca Elata looks ok but the compost (thankfully) was bone dry. This plant was a pig to move
The Yucca Treculeana is a magnificent plant. It had flowered and is now producing a new head
For Jim a pic of the Nova trunk
Here's the Jubaea/Butia hybrid
I'm looking forward to planting them 😀
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Posted : 16/04/2013 3:48 pm
Nice score!
Those ought to keep you-and the cat- entertained for some time 😀
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Posted : 16/04/2013 6:02 pm
great looking plants Andy...............you must have a very large garden for all those big specimen plants 😯
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