Yucca angustissima too: http://www.swcoloradowildflowers.com/white%20enlarged%20photo%20pages/yucca%20angustissima%20and%20harrimaniae.htm

The two up close look very different too me.
Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

Yucca angustissima var kanabensis (I think). Very hardy here in the west I have no dought it will look like new this spring.

Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

It is, I guess. Aren't these two 'related'? RPS sells Yucca harrimaniae (Nana).

Y. harrimaniae looks very much like Yucca nana, I often think nana is just a smaller version?

It is, I guess. Aren't these two 'related'? RPS sells Yucca harrimaniae (Nana).

I think so, too me they are the same plant. 🙂

nice link Barb.

-32F at Alamosa, San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Colorado........didn't know it got that cold there..........I bet the native Yuccas in that area are hardy. 😯

The next on the list, was Ely NV. -22f, I have seen a j-tree growing wild just south of there on the county line! (White Pine/Lincoln County Line) But someone dug it up and stole it! 😡 Just may have been the farthest wild growing j-tree. 🙄

I may lose my biggest Y faxon,

Oh no.
I'd tear apart a cardboard box and wrap it around the trunk, tied with string.
And a blanket for a hat.

Barb

Thanks for the idea, but it is even hard to keep it covered with a blanket. I have many plants around it under the snow and I can't afford to step on them. Plus it is to big to cover every year. If it lives great, but if it dies than I will find another trial plant. I believe my garden is a study for plants. If they take to much effort to keep alive then I could not recomend them as a zone 6 plant, or good for colder gardens.
The hardier plants I find the more I can share with others in the area. I strive for truely hardy plants. 😀
But I'm also not against keeping less cold hardy plants covered as long as it takes minimal effort. No heat/just plastic cover. 🙂

can't afford to step on them

Good point, I hadn't thought of them.

But it'd kill me to see them suffer...probably just the Mother in me. :laughing6:

Barb

But it'd kill me to see them suffer...probably just the Mother in me. :laughing6:

Barb

It would bother me also, but they might be hardier than they look. 😉

But someone dug it up and stole it!

Aren't there laws about digging up stuff in the wild?
Too bad the idiot didn't get caught.

I always joke I'm going to take my shovel...
And if there are a zillion of something (like baby Fir trees in the woods), I'll dig those out. 😉

Barb

But someone dug it up and stole it!

Aren't there laws about digging up stuff in the wild?
Too bad the idiot didn't get caught.

I always joke I'm going to take my shovel...
And if there are a zillion of something (like baby Fir trees in the woods), I'll dig those out. 😉

Barb

So right Barb, there is laws. Even though there is permits for j-tree taking, that was not the area covered by the permits. 😡

I've seen freshly bull dozed j-trees on county road right of ways tipped over in the sun, I so wanted to load my truck up, but without a permit no go! What a waste. 😡

My new official low of 2013 -8F Somepeople had as cold as -20F

freshly bull dozed j-trees on county road right of ways tipped over in the sun, I so wanted to load my truck up, but without a permit no go! What a waste.

The road contractors could've given them to you...just a matter of timing I guess.
So sad.

My new low is 2 mornings at -17C 1F 🙄

Barb

The road contractors could've given them to you...just a matter of timing I guess.
So sad.

Barb

I think they would not have cared at all, probably graded the road the week before I was there. The problem is...you can't haul around wild plants without the proper tags/paper work. Or I would have had some nice j-trees in my yard! Sad to think they are all dead now. 🙄

My backyard sensor recorded -25.2 C last night, -10 C in my magnolia enclosure.Brrrrrrrr........ Got to 0 C in my heated palm huts.

lowest temperature the same the past two nights: 2f or -16c. Coldest nights in two winters. Went down to -6c in my large enclosure... smaller ones were warmer.

Almost 23 months(Jan 26th will be 23 months) and counting without a sub-zero (F) temp.

We got down to 2F last winter and so far 1F at my house this year,
not hanging on by much but it is enough to keep the Bamboo green
and the shoots on the Butterfly bushes alive...winter isn't over yet though.

The issue is really the snow on the ground,we got 1/2" before this Arctic air hit
and that was enough to keep us almost tickling the zero degree (F) mark for a few nights.