Hello Benny and all my fellow yucca fanatics!
While surfing the internet for information on cactus, yucca and succulents I have often come upon your web site and it is a wealth of knowledge for the cold hardy desert plants of the north american south west.I noticed on your website that you requested pictures yucca glaucca ssp. albertans and I happen to have some pictures of these in native habitat on the on the montana / alberta border south of where i live in Medicine Hat

Welcome aboard "Elburro"! Thanks for sharing the pics of the South Alberta glaucas and fantastic landscapes too!

Hello "ELBurro",

Thanks for showing us the super nice photos of Yucca glauca ssp. albertana in habitat.

How early do they bloom in habitat? In the article; Hurlburt, Donna, Status of Soapweed (Yucca glauca) in Alberta. Alberta Wildlife Status Report No. 35 (2001).
(PDF here: http://srd.alberta.ca/Fishwildlife/SpeciesAtRisk/DetailedStatus/documents/soapweed.pdf).

Does Hurlburt write, that the Albertan population of Yucca glauca has the longest stretch of flowering time, here there can be blooming specimens up to 89 days from the first specimen to bloom and to the last specimen drops it's last flower.

In your photo is looks as they start quite early in growing season.

Btw. do I see a big piece of petrified wood on one of this photo, or is it just a large boulder of sandstone?

http://postimg.org/image/7ek1y25s5/

May I use some of the photos on my website?

Yucca glauca is actually a favorite of mine I have not had much succes with the subspecies Yucca glauca ssp. albertana, but I have some forms from South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska, which has survived for quite a lot of years in our garden.

Here are some photos of two South Dakota specimens in bloom in 2011:

The plant to the left is grown from seeds collected at Rapid City, 1100 m. South Dakota, fh1178.61, the seeds were sown in 1998.
The plant to the right is grown from seeds collected at St. Onge Peak, South Dakota. fh1178.94, the seeds were sown in 1998.

After flowering in 2011 both plants has started growing a new rosette inside the old one and there are also new rosettes forming from the rhizomes on both of them.

Have a nice day

Benny

Hi Benny,

your Yucca 'Elena's Star' hybrid and Y. karls2 x elata are great looking Yuccas.......I wish I had a 10 acre garden so I can grow out EVERY hybrid Yucca seed. 8)

a couple other nice Yuccas include

Y. gloriosa 'treculeana' form collected by Rob of Tenn.....great rigid leaves
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Yucca gloriosa x elata hybrid.......not sure who created this....Jost of Germany sent me seed back in 2005.
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Hello ELBurro

great photos of Y. glauca v albertiana........very nice landscape out there! 8)

Hello Benny ,Igor and Tim......
I'm glad you liked the photos and Benny you are certainly welcome to use any of them on your website.The time stamp on image was June 26 2010 and that was the year we had a cool spring with rains of biblical proportions.I went down to the Onefour research station after the weather finally became summer like in hopes of finding the yucca in bloom but I was a little too early.In a normal year i'm sure they bloom sooner in the season.This is the only time I have ever visited this place and I am not really sure when the flowering begins and ends but if it's true that the time window is 89 days it would be interesting to see if they are blooming right now since we have had abnormally hot September so far.
I don't think thats petrified wood in that picture but I'm sure there is some to be found in that area as well as dinosaur fossils.The badlands of Alberta are excellent places to hunt for these.
Your yucca glauca seem quite happy in your garden and with perpendicular flower stalks. Mine always seem to lean over to the side for some reason.
Here is link to some pictures of the other place in Alberta where yuccas grow.
http://people.uleth.ca/~dan.johnson/pinhorn.htm

Hi elburro,

thank you for sharing pictures and link. It's nice to see them in natural habitat. I have young plants grown from seeds collected in Platte County, Wyoming (1985.72 Mesa Garden). The seeds were sown in February 2011.

Benny and Tim, good looking Yucca species and hybrids!

Hello all,

I have to let you know, that one of my most favorite Yuccas will bloom this year. It's a hybrid I made in 2008, Yucca angustissima ssp. kanabensis X (filamentosa x arkansana) BMJ #2086A.

Here is a photo of this specimen looked yesterday:

This specimen were sown 2009-03-16 and planted in the garden 2009-06-09. It has survived the horror winter 2009-10 and the following 4 harsh winters without any problems, it is just a SUPER plant. I really look forward to see how the inflorescence will be looking and how tall it will grow to be.

Best wishes

Benny

looking good Benny.... what are you going to pollinate it with?

Hello Andy,

At the moment it's the only Yucca in which I have noticed a flowerbud. So I have to hope for donations of pollen from other Yucca growers world wide.

The all time record in our garden is 62 flowerstalks in one summer 🙂 But this will not be happening this year or any of the nearest years to come, while the heavy snowloads of the last 5 winters has ruined many (read - most) Yucca rosettes in our garden, so the Yucca plants will have to recover themselves from being flattened, before they get big enough to bloom. This specimen is growing on a place in which it only had a maximum of about 50 to 100 cm of snow in those snow rich winters (the far end of our garden had 150 to 250 cm of snow, but I don't think any Yucca had more than maybe 175 cm in 2009-10 and again in January 2014). Most Yuccas has survived this or at least the rhizomes has, but about 95% of my Opuntias were killed by the weight from the snow 🙁

Will you have any interesting Yucca in bloom this summer?

Have a nice day

Benny