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Posted By: Jimmy V Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 12:14 PM
Here is a couple shots of my Yucca in bloom beside my house.
Yucca Bloom 1
Yucca bloom
Posted By: comfrey Re: Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 12:41 PM
Yucca are very pretty when they bloom and yours looks great!
Posted By: Jimmy V Re: Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 02:07 PM
Thanks for your kind words Comfrey. I have cut this back every year and it still gets out of hand . This year I am going to leave it alone see how it does. Looking for some good Spanish Daggers to go out front. Found some but they look stunted.
Posted By: Patty S Re: Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 03:43 PM
Hey Jimmy! wavey It's really great to see you!

Your Yucca looks fantabulous! Judging from your windows that I see in the pics, that's some dang tall yucca you got there! kissies
Posted By: Jimmy V Re: Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 07:41 PM
Hi Patty thanks for your kind words. This stuff just keeps on keeping on of course we have very few really cold days but this has been threw a couple of weeks of hard freeze in 2000 and 2001. I was down due to verizon phone lines always out or having such a loud buzz would not let you connect. Now have high speed cable and was cheaper then the dialuip was. mad
Posted By: Patty S Re: Yucca Blooms - October 15th, 2006 at 11:08 PM
Cheaper than dial-up! kissies
Posted By: margaret e. pell Re: Yucca Blooms - October 16th, 2006 at 09:29 PM
Mine bloomed for the first time this year, and it's about 12 years old! To be fair to it, it's had its problems - something kept eating it until we fenced the backyard, the dogs dug it up a few times... But this year it made up for everything, gorgeous, just like yours, and self fertile. I've got a lot of seed. I think I'll wait until spring to try planting, we're zone 4/5 here!
Posted By: weezie13 Re: Yucca Blooms - October 16th, 2006 at 11:43 PM
We have a neighbor down the street
that has several of them...
They stay green right underneath the snow..
They slump a bit, but come back full force
and then some for him...

Very flw nice flw blooms flw you got there Jimmy!!

I've never stopped to smell his flowers,
do the flowers have a scent?????? flw
Posted By: sibyl Re: Yucca Blooms - October 20th, 2006 at 02:21 PM
hellow,
i have a bunch of yaccas, they get out of hand , then i got my yaccas and peonies fighting for ground! after the yaccas flowers die off the main crown dies and side shoots grow, you can remove new side shoots in spring or fall and plant them somewere else. thats what i do to keep peace between the yaccas and peonies. wink
Posted By: Jimmy V Re: Yucca Blooms - October 21st, 2006 at 07:20 AM
sibyl my grandmother wouod trim the longer or lower leaves off yucca and weave mats to sit on and place mats also baskets for gathering her eggs or picking flowers. You can make a lot of things with the leaves also can make soap out of thr root I dont know how. But my mother and grandmother and all my aunts made yucca root soap. Got you real clean and washed clothes with it too kinda like with lie soap.
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