Spectacular!
update pics please as it stretches out.

so sick of combing the helicopters (maple) out of it's head

A shop-vac works great, saves tons of time.
Agree that maples are a pain.
We've got fir trees near our pool, and all those little "flush envelopes" litter the pool with the slightest breeze 👿

Great that you've got 80s and 90s to make stuff pop.
My yucca filamentosa are still in a funk, showing cold damage from winter (which I think has finally ended) 😆 😆

Thanks!
Barb

Hey thanks for the Shop Vac tip Barb! During "helicopter season" it seems I'm out there with the leaf blower every other day trying to stay ahead of it and have at least a semi-nice looking yard to enjoy in the meantime. I tried carefully blowing the stuff out of the yucca's head with the blower and it was no help. I'll be out there with the vac this afternoon...

My filamentosas were a little slow to get going this spring also. One looks like it might flower again this year. The others I'm not sure, but one of them has put up over a foot of new growth in the last couple weeks so maybe I'll get lucky and have a couple of them bloom. It seems my filamentosas responded well to the concentrated stinky fish muck fertilizer.

Yep, after our shi@ spring it seems we have finally turned the corner. Have not been below 60f overnight for weeks now with mid 70s/80s and even 90s highs. The bananas and cannas are loving it. All 4 of my trachies (2 in ground and 2 potted) are moving visibly each day too.

I promise, I'll keep this thread up to date!

Don't ya hate that when those native plants pollute your specimen plants! 😆

That's awesome to see your Yucca flowering,probably the first one ever in Minnesota!

very cool....try to pollenate with other Yuccas if possible like filamentosa.

Tim- I'd love to pollenate it to get some seed but unfortunately at this point I have nothing else flowering (yuccas). I'm hoping to get blooms out of one or more of my filamentosas but if it's going to happen it is going to be a while. I think the timing will be off making it impossible to pollenate the big one. I believe the thompsoniana is flowering earlier because it was protected and had a much more cushy winter than the others.

If pollen will survive the US Mail I'd be happy to send you a SASE to send me some from one of your yuccas you have in bloom. I'd share any seed produced...

Meanwhile here's a picture of 24-hour growth of the flower spike. It moved 4+" in 24 hours. The pictures earlier in this thread are from yesterday morning, this one from the same time this morning. These mid 80s and 90s are great! 70s overnight lows and 92 today, 95 tomorrow and with 70+ dewpoints. It sure has everything growing!

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Filamentosa that flowered last year (last year's pic), hoping to see it flower again this year too. It has a ways to go though with our late spring this year...
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Great pics!

I send pollen to Europe every year. I'll be glad to send some your way. I think my Y. glauca v stricta, Y. gloriosa and Y. arkansana will open first. Lets talk in another week.

Congrats on the Yucca flowering. I wish I had your collection of Yuccas. So cool 8)

John

WOW...that's one nice looking yucca for a zone 4/5 8)

Tim- Sounds great, that would be awesome! I'd love to get some seed out of it. You would be welcome to as much of it as you want. Meanwhile the stretch of nice growing weather continues here. We hit 97f yesterday and the overnight low was 78f last night. 95 to 100 forecast today (record maybe) with 70s dewpoints before falling back to the normal 80s for the balance of the week. Gotta love it! (here in MN we don't complain when it is hot and humid...)

I checked the flower stalk again this morning. It is now 3" above the highest leaves on the head. Overall height of the stalk is nearly 2 feet now. That's 10" of stalk growth in 48 hours! I still can't get over how fast this thing has grown since it was planted here. Is it a true thompsoniana? Some kind of cross with rostrata or something else? It seems to grow way faster than a rostrata though. It does have serrated leaves with yellow edges. They are relatively firm. It's blue-green but more green than blue, so less blue than most of the rostratas I've seen. I'm a yucca novice so any more experienced member's opinions are greatly appreciated.

And thanks for all the kind words everyone. I know seeing a large yucca flower is not really a big deal, but under the circumstances, and especially for here in MN I think it is something special, and as Jim mentioned probably a first here in MN. I'll keep the pictures coming.

Stalk moved about 10" in 46 hours! This pic taken only 46 hours after the first picture in this thread.

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Amazing!

seeing a large yucca flower is not really a big deal,

It is a big deal on Palms North! :bounce:

Look forward to seeing/hearing where it tops out 😆
Barb

Your Yucca sure looks like it is a mix of Y. thompsoniana and rostrata. Y. thompsoniana blooms much more than Y. rostrata. If yours blooms nearly every season it's a thompsoniana. Some times Y. rostrata will bloom from transplant shock....if yours is more rostrata then you will probably never get it to bloom again....sorry. I've had Y. rostratas here since 2002 with no blooms.

Here's from this morning, 48 hours later than the last most recent pic I posted:

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