Would have loved to jump the fence and dug out the shoot in pic #1 but I don't think they would have liked that! 😈

Would have loved to jump the fence and dug out the shoot in pic #1 but I don't think they would have liked that! 😈

I know how you feel, I would have wanted too do the same. 8)

Did you ask? You wont know till you ask!

I think my GF at the time was already patient enough with me about the plants.

The Gloriosa was at the Zoo and we had just come from here MBG.

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Ah, those pics felt good. :happy7:

Barb

Ah, those pics felt good. :happy7:

Barb

I agree. 😀

yes......nice photos..........I want summer NOW!

regarding northern gloriosas...........Jim and Aaron have a few.........you guys are in good testing areas since your really pushing the limits. We'll see what happens in a few years.

I left my small potted gloriosa variegata in unheated GH. It looks OK so far.

I left my small potted gloriosa variegata in unheated GH. It looks OK so far.

I've had gloriosa variegata for years uncovered outside and has no problems here. But it is almost a different plant than the other Y.
gloriosa.

But it is almost a different plant than the other Y. gloriosa.

Do you mean a natural form is less hardy than a variegated one?

But it is almost a different plant than the other Y. gloriosa.

Do you mean a natural form is less hardy than a variegated one?

They are very hardy, but they also look much different than other gloriosa's I've seen. The leave are very stiff on varigated ones, to me they just don't grow the same as others I have seen. 😕

Yucca gloriosa variegata is the only gloriosa form to die back to the ground on me except for the forms I no longer grow.

Looking good in 2008
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Fried after the 08-09 winter.......Y. schottii died to the ground that winter too.
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Aw, that was a nice gloriosa.

Yucca gloriosa variegata is the only gloriosa form to die back to the ground on me except for the forms I no longer grow.

Tim, that was one nice looking gloriosa! Too bad it died back to the ground. 🙁
I had 2 die back to the ground here as well, but only after they bloomed. I have never had any trouble over wintering them otherwise. The flowers came late in the season so maybe it drain the plants energy for the winter? 😕 My freind in TwinFalls ID, his also died after it bloomed then came back from the roots. I think the next time mine tries to bloom I'm going to cut the flower stock out. 😐

Funny that no other gloriosa or recurvifolia has died on me after blooming. I have loads of different forms. That 08-09 winter for us was hard as my Y. schottii's died too. I had a schottii survive the 4 seasons prior and it died in 08-09 so I'm not sure what's killing the gloriosa varigata. Perhaps it has too many aloifolia genes in it?? They have more 'succulent' leaves than other gloriosas..........likely a 'non-hardy' form.

PS, I dug up all those Y. gloriosa variegata pups this summer and tossed them........only have a few roots hanging around. They form too many brown spots on the leaves to enjoy them. I need space for all the hybrids out there! This summer I crossed a Yucca 'gloriosa x flaccida' x ['constricta x filamentosa' x 'filamentosa x elata'].........boy talk about a lot of genes. 😆