Looks good in the snow. 🙂

Some cold damage

Hey, Aaron, was it cold damage or snowmelt in the crown?
Have you ever put a snow protection cover on it?

Each year it's getting more and more hardy. 😀
Barb

Hey, Aaron, was it cold damage or snowmelt in the crown?
Have you ever put a snow protection cover on it?

Each year it's getting more and more hardy. 😀
Barb

It was cold damage, the center was fine but the outer leave were burnt. I did protect it when it was young, but not sence it has grown. Last winter stayed cold for to long and did much damge here. I lost several yucca, wished I coverd them all. 🙄 The nice thing about it is I am weeding out the weak. 😆

Hi Aaron,

It's kinda weird that rostrata would struggle in your neck of the woods, especially given your successes with brevifolia. It's hard to tell from photos, but the leaves on this specimen look more rigid (pun intended) than what I have seen on rostrata. Could this plant be the less hardy y. rigida? Could this also be the case for the one you lost this winter? Just a theory....

Duncan

PS. I have posted more than one rostrata here, the two headed one is by the house and the other has the burn. I decided to make this my offical rostrata yucca page. 😆

Hi Aaron,

It's kinda weird that rostrata would struggle in your neck of the woods, especially given your successes with brevifolia. It's hard to tell from photos, but the leaves on this specimen look more rigid (pun intended) than what I have seen on rostrata. Could this plant be the less hardy y. rigida? Could this also be the case for the one you lost this winter? Just a theory....

Duncan

Hi Duncan,
That rostrata is a form with thin straight leaves but flexibale to the touch. 😉 We had a warm fall and things kept growing late into the season, and then without warning we got very cold fast -0f in November. Then I think what did most things in was our cool/cold spring that never warmed up. I think these to thing is what killed and burnt so many of my plants this year.
PS. I also lost my desert-willow this year. 🙁

Aaron,

wished I coverd them all

Yup, I feel for you, you loved those yuccas so much.
And the willow... 😥 😥

I get so mad at myself 'coz hindsight is 20/20 😐

Barb

Thanks Barb. 🙂

Nice Yucca for zone 5b!! I agree with Duncan.....your 'rostrata' does not appear to be 'typical'. My gut was telling me it's a Yucca linearfolia which looks very closely like a Y. rostrata. Does your 'rostrata' have a serrated leaf edge?

Nice Yucca for zone 5b!! I agree with Duncan.....your 'rostrata' does not appear to be 'typical'. My gut was telling me it's a Yucca linearfolia which looks very closely like a Y. rostrata. Does your 'rostrata' have a serrated leaf edge?

It could be, but is different than the linearfolia I had that was not hardy. I will check on the leaves but I'm sure it has serrated leaves. 😀

Up date on my two best rostratas.

and my double trunked

very nice rostratas. I just took a photo of a Yucca filamentosa x rostrata. I hope these will tolerate more cold and moisture than Y. rostrata. This was seed grown from Denmark (Benny).
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I'm amazed at all the cross yuccas you have, very, very cool. 8)

Have you ever heard of a brevifolia cross? I thought I did once, but then later heard it could not be done? 😐