This one is being overgrown.....I need to cut that other plant back.
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Hello Tim,

Thanks for showing some of your favorite Yuccas.

Yes, many Yuccas look their best right now. But soon the "fungi-season" starts, and the weak ones which need to be removed, will be easy to point out.

The hybrids with the Yucca angustissima ssp. kanabensis is behaving very variable, some has grown quite well, whereas others had died back. I have not been very observant and I have not made any notes about it, because the winter and the summers has been so harsh on most plants in the garden. I'm just glad for all those, which has started growing new rosettes again from the rhizomes below. The "mother-father" specimen of Yucca angustissima ssp. kanabensis has also died back, but there are now 4 small plants comming up, and I hope for a mild winter, so they don't have to start again from deep below.

I used to have a Yucca elata ssp. verdiensis with a small trunk, but I think it's gone during one of the last winters, it was a very nice little plant with lots of fibers - I just love fibers, the more the merrier. Maybe it's because I have so little left on my own head 🙂

Here is a photo of one of our cactus/Yucca-beds:

In here there used to be at least 50-70 different Opuntias, two big Yuccas with 40 to 50 cm trunks (Yucca glauca ssp. stricta and an elata, somewhat like DesertZone's ). some trunking Yucca glauca (from New Mexico), Yucca baccata (Texas and New Mexico), and lots of other wild species. But as you can see, are there only small Yuccas growing, most starting from rhizomes. And you need to know where the remains of Opuntisa are growing. Almost all the regrowing Yuccas are man-made hybrids!

Have a nice day

Benny

Igor,

I haven't had much luck with Yucca rigida. I have tried some in the unheated greenhouse, but none of them has survived for long. The same goes for Yucca rostrata (BIG plant), thompsoniana and linearifolia. At the moment I have one small 2-3 year old seedling of a Yucca thompsoniana which is still alive, it's planted inside an unheated greenhouse. All it's siblings from the same batch of seeds growing in pots died (about 30 plants). I might have a small rostrata somewhere in the greenhouse also, but as you have seen in the photos, the bed in the greenhouse is jammed with plants, all fighting to outlive their neighbors 🙂 So I need to look close to find it ...!

I would try planting a few plants on several different places in the garden or better in an unheated greehouse. You seem to have a much shorter winter and better summers, which I am sure of will improve your chances.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hi Benny and Tim,
one of my favorite Yucca is the hybrid from you , Benny, growing in the garden of Tim Behan..I'm talking about Yucca filamentosa X Yucca rostrata.
An another one is Yucca x 'Bishe' from Germany
In France, growing in my garden, my favorite Yucca is Yucca desmetiana (the real one !) and Yucca linearifolia. 😀

Welcome to the fore, Araliaman. We would love to see some pictures!

Benny.......yes your climate is very demanding on Yuccas since they thrive on sun/heat. I can only imagine your climate is similar to parts of Nova Scotia?

Fred......welcome to the forum....and yes, lets see some photos!! 8) I too like Y. 'Bische' very much too and so far it's hardy in my climate.

Tim,

Oh-No, Nova Scotia is a tropical isle 🙂 More like France or southern Germany, I would guess. Halifax, Nova Scotia is at latitude 44.38 and we live at 57°25'0.35"N 9°59'27.00"Ø. 1. latitude is 111 km, so we are 1425 km further north. I have a friend just north of Stockholm, Sweden, he also grow Yuccas and Opuntia in his garden! His garden is at approximately Latitude 59.3 and at his place it is however a little warmer during the summer, but a lot colder in winter.

If you plot the coordinates into Google Earth, you can see our garden from above. And you will be able to see the greenhouses and the cactus/Yucca beds too.

Here is a Google Earth snapshot I just made:

Our property is marked black (with a shaky hand) and the yellow numbers refer to our 4 greenhouses. I think, that the satellite took the photo maybe 2-3 years ago, in spring and at about in the late afternoon from the length and direction of the shades.

More favorite-Yucca-candidates will be added later.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hi Benny,

here's a quick summary between your area, Nova Scotia and Boston, Massachusetts. Boston gets a few nice warm months where your area and Nova Scotia miss out. 😉

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Well this yucca is the bees knees for me which I have shown before and resides in the garden of Nick Macer's Pan Global Plants. I'm sure this Yucca is a hybrid but has some Linearifolia genes in it.

A pretty unique plant that loves the rain, took -18C without a blink and is currently around 8ft tall 8)

Well this yucca is the bees knees for me which I have shown before and resides in the garden of Nick Macer's Pan Global Plants. I'm sure this Yucca is a hybrid but has some Linearifolia genes in it.

A pretty unique plant that loves the rain, took -18C without a blink and is currently around 8ft tall 8)

That is one cool yucca! 😯

Hi Andy.......that is a cool Yucca.........since it's so cold/wet hardy I can only imagine it has some elata genes in it too??

Hi Andy.......that is a cool Yucca.........since it's so cold/wet hardy I can only imagine it has some elata genes in it too??

I bet you are right, looks something like the one from Plantasia Cactus Gardens. 😀

Tim,

Thanks for the great weather/climate site. Yes it does seem, as we have a very much equal climate as Nova Scotia. Unfortunately is there no weather date from near out garden. We live an garden in the northern part of Denmark and our climate is very much influenced by the mountains in Norway! This gives us a colder, more sunny and somewhat drier clima, than the weather data of the towns available on the website - Well today it's not at all sunny or dry, it's raining, but actually much needed, it has been a very dry year.

Maybe if the global warming makes the Golf-stream swing towards Denmark's west-coast in stead of the Norwegian West-coast, then we will be able to grow palms up here too 🙂

Have a nice day

Benny

Hello again,

Here is another favorite Yucca:

Yucca 'Elena's Star':

Here as 4 years old:

Here as 6 years old:

Here is a photo of the flower, you can see why this Yucca has the word "star" in it:

Here is a photo of the specimen later with lots of seed pods growing:

At this webpage you will find more photos of this Yucca:

http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/yucca-hybrids/Elenas_Star.html

Yucca 'Elena's Star' is easy to grow and does not show any damage after the winters. It's a hybrid I made in 2003 a cross of a Yucca glauca as seedparent and a big Yucca in the Yucca flaccida-filamentosa complex (BMJ#1402), this plant has very glaucous leaves and despite it very dry growing place, it make flowers up to 180 cm tall. The flower stalk is very rigid and it is never blown over as most "garden Yuccas" does here in our very windy climate.

But when the hybrid flowered and had tons of huge seedpods, I had to support it because of the heavy weight of the pods:

As you can see, did I made a lot of seedpods on this plant, and those pods pollinated with pollen from another Yucca has germinated well, whereas those pollinated with it's own pollen had a much lower germination-rate. The seedlings of the "next-generation-hybrids" grows well, and I look forward to see, if any has inherited the large star-formed flowers.

So far have I only been able to make one cutting, so propagation is very slow, I hope that I can get it propagated in Tissue-culture, so it can be available to other gardens.

Best wishes

Benny

Hello again,

Here is another of my favorites:

Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" x elata, a hybrid I made in 2004.

Here is the biggest clone in our garden at the moment:

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in 2011 I had another clone which flowered:

The reason I like this hybrid so much, is because of all the fibers it has on the leaves, they give a nice look together with the very dark green color of the leaves. The flower-stalk is 3 times taller than the seed-parent and at least 3 times shorter than it's pollen-parent. The flowers are not so big, but but this gives the plant even more elegant appearance.

Here you can find some more photos, and see how the parent-plants looks:

http://www.bennyskaktus.dk/yucca-hybrids/jensen-2001.html

Have a nice day

Benny