Yucca Thompsoniana Flowering in Minnesota 4b/5a – Page 7 – Anything Yucca – PalmsNorth.com

mnpalms · 2011-06-05T11:50:51Z

Here are some early pictures of the flower stalk my y. thompsoniana is producing. For those that don't know, I planted this yucca about 15 months ago here in MN in a corner of my trachy bed. It came from a seller in Vegas who stated it was taken from the wild. Vegas? I thought this species grows wild in west Texas... Anyway It came bare root with barely any roots to speak of. I'm amazed it has recovered and grown so much so far since being planted. This yucca exhibits Rostrata traits also so I wonder if it is a cross? It has been exposed to heavy snow several times and mid teens (f) at the lowest last winter. It did get protected along with my trachies though. It's over 5 feet tall now and growing visibly each day. The flower stalk has moved over 6" in the last few days. I can't wait to see the full bloom! I'm getting so sick of combing the helicopters (maple) out of it's head though. The spring green-up came a couple weeks late this year so the big maples are still dropping seed all over my yard. Almost done though, then I can finally do a final cleanup and open/uncover the pool. I won't even consider uncovering the pool until the maples are done, it can be a real mess otherwise. Kind of a bummer though, we are missing out on all this nice weather without the pool open. All these 80s and 90s temps, everything is so happy and growing like mad.<img srcsrcsrc

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mnpalms

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That's awesome Jim! Thanks for posting the pic. Good question, what should we call this new yucca?

I think winter has finally arrived here. We had our first teens (lows) this past week and got a couple inches of snow. Got down to 14 here last night! I plugged in my palm hut a few days ago. Now if we can just have a normal spring 2012 this will be a nice shortened winter bacause of the nice mild fall...

Posted : 07/12/2011 7:07 am

hardyjim

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I hear ya

We kinda just switched to having winter weather........
all of the sudden the snow covers/claims the ground again.

Nothing to bad though.....
And its kind of fun to see the snow fall again.

Posted : 09/12/2011 9:54 pm

TimMAz6

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keep the photos coming....I'd like to see what traits those hybrid seeds will take on. I still haven't cleaned all my Yucca seed pods yet. Sorry to everyone for the long delay in mailing them out. I've been way too busy this fall.....my Trachy is still not fully protected and we had a low of 9F the other day.......a close call.

Posted : 25/12/2011 2:47 am

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No worries, I can wait for seed. Just take care of those awesome plants. 😉

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Posted : 25/12/2011 10:35 am