Its curling threads are the subject of today's nearly-wordless post.
Yucca filamentosa (aka "Adam's needle", "needle palm" and a few other names) is well-named it seems. This is about the only yucca that people grow around here. I hope to change that soon.
Here's a tip: when taking macro shots of pointy-tipped plants like this, make sure you're wearing glasses or you keep your non-camera eye tightly closed. I'm just saying.
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Is just tip based on personal experience???
ReplyDeleteGreat photos, as always!
I still think you should get a Yucca rostrata.
There are other very cold-hardy yuccas: Yucca glauca, Yucca pallida, Yucca neomexicana, Yucca torreyi.
Well I wear glasses, so no danger of eye pokes, but I got poked in the face a bit. Also, rostrata is already on my list of plants to get next year. I'll check out the others too.
ReplyDeleteVery cool photos.
ReplyDeleteYucca rostrata actually died on me without protection, but I kept one tarped which survived and got a bit bigger this year so it's not that cold hardy and seems to grow relatively slow for a yucca. I also had a yellow yucca filamentosa which happened to get eaten up by deer to the point it stopped sprouting.
ReplyDeleteI have a couple of other species of hardier green yucca which survived -9F without protection, grown from seed in the spring.
And thus my tag line "danger garden...careful you could poke an eye out" because you really could!
ReplyDeleterealy nice photos!
ReplyDeleteGreat creation of art! A wordless post, nice!
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