Some Local Yuccas

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 3:53 am

Hey everyone. Mostly every block in our town has yuccas, some houses have multiple patches. I just though t this neighbor's yuccas were particularly cool looking. This family lives across the baseball field from our house. I love these yuccas. How old do you think they may be? The guy has no idea as they were there when he bought the house.

And here are some cool ones from down the shore. These really thrive here because of the milder marine temps. People really put them everywhere down in Wildwood and Cape May. Sadly enough, this cycle shop closed and they are demolishing the whole place for a municipal parking lot for the tourists. Guess the yuccas are toast too! I'd love to somehow get them!!!!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 6:53 am

Any idea what the first pic might be? It looks happy there concidering it isnt very desert like LOL

If your that hardcore about the yucca, i wouldnt be suprised them surviving a quick digging up. Their yucca right? Nigh indestructable! But i dont know exactly how well they do being dug up, other then the fact that its hard to actualy outright kill them ( other then with water of course)

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:21 am

I saw some (like the ones in the first pic)in St.Louis at the zoo.

I had no idea there were any trunking yuccas in St.Louis.

I wonder if there are the hardiest trunking Yucca????

At least in a wet climate.

Maybe Tim knows.....are these a green form of Gloriosa???

I REALLY WANTED TO HOP THE FENCE AND NAB ONE OF THOSE SHOOTS!

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:28 am

I was thinkin that too jim ( i remembered that post, but didnt realize they looked THAT similar)....

I bet if you organized a trade at the zoo while you were there, they may have worked something out. Hell, all you can do is ask right? ( or the more fun, yet illegal course, since you put it so perfect " ....... HOP THE FENCE AND NAB ONE OF THOSE SHOOTS! " )

I think i asked in that post ( the st louis post) if it was gloriosa. But I think there are others that look similar. I read somewhere that someone had yucca gloriosa growing in nova scotia ( im pretty sure it was on daves garden, under the "yucca gloriosa" plantfile.), only to be told that it was something similar, not gloriosa ( it was unprotected).

TerdalFarm · Post by **TerdalFarm** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 7:39 am

Yucca are common around here--I guess we have the climate for them (e.g., it is hot and dry).
Sid, can you dig those up?

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:22 am

I think your wife and her tractor skills would make quick work of them eric

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:48 am

hardyjim wrote:Maybe Tim knows.....are these a green form of Gloriosa???

Looks like Recurvifolia to me.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:00 am

Mike,

Nice to see that yuccas are so widely planted in your area.
Wish we had more varieties available commercially here; we certainly have the summer dryness they need, but winter might zap 'em.

Please tell me you're NOT going to let them bulldoze those old beauties at Wildwood.
Maybe tape a note to the door with your phone number on it.
Or enquire at an adjacent business to learn who's in charge.

The contractor will likely help you load/dig 'em up for a case or two of beer.

Sheesh, I'd camp out overnight to get my hands on them.

Jim, the zoo curator would probably let you have one if you enquired.

Erik's wife and her tractor skills

She'd bring the tree beside it too.

Nice pics folks.
More please.

Barb

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:36 am

TerdalFarm wrote:Yucca are common around here--I guess we have the climate for them (e.g., it is hot and dry).
Sid, can you dig those up?

I'll be baklc down the shore this weekend so I may stop and ask if they would let me...... They would be amazing!!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:37 am

lucky1 wrote:Mike,

Nice to see that yuccas are so widely planted in your area.
Wish we had more varieties available commercially here; we certainly have the summer dryness they need, but winter might zap 'em.

Please tell me you're NOT going to let them bulldoze those old beauties at Wildwood.
Maybe tape a note to the door with your phone number on it.
Or enquire at an adjacent business to learn who's in charge.

The contractor will likely help you load/dig 'em up for a case or two of beer.

Sheesh, I'd camp out overnight to get my hands on them.

Jim, the zoo curator would probably let you have one if you enquired.

Erik's wife and her tractor skills
She'd bring the tree beside it too.

Nice pics folks.
More please.

Barb

I really wanna try to get them Barb. I'll let you all know what happens.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:36 pm

canadianplant wrote:I was thinkin that too jim ( i remembered that post, but didnt realize they looked THAT similar)....

I bet if you organized a trade at the zoo while you were there, they may have worked something out. Hell, all you can do is ask right?

Good news is,you can get yourself...

bad news is,it's in the wild cat exhibit! Boing!

Cameron_z6a_N.S. · Post by **Cameron_z6a_N.S.** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:49 pm

Nice pics!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 8:12 pm

WOW...those are some nice yuccas, just as nice as any down here in AZ.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:22 am

Yeah they really do well here in NJ. They are even listed as desireable plants to use for landscaping in many municipalities' s websites. I wish mine were so tall. They are flowering but they are shorter. They have however given me five new plants that I have shared with neighbors and friends. Guess they'll take a while to get tall like those babies in the first picture! Here are two of mine flowering this week, almost ready to drop the flowers. They're loving the heat! May get up to 100 today.

canadianplant · Post by **canadianplant** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 6:03 am

Filamentosa?

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:53 am

canadianplant wrote:Filamentosa?

YEp...OMG I just noticed your weather sticker is almost half the temp as ours...UGH!!!

ROBRETI · Post by **ROBRETI** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:19 pm

I would tend to agree with Igor in that it looks like Y. recurvifolia. Will make a nice group.
Rob

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:51 pm

great Yuccas Mike. I'd definitely find out if those trunkers down by the shore are being dug up......those are great specimen plants.

The neighbors blooming Yucca is Y. recurvifolia/gloriosa (hybrid). By the 'book' the difference between gloriosa/recurvifolia are:

Bloom traits:
Y. recurvifolia - the bottom of the flowers start inside the leaf head
Y. gloriosa - the bottom of the flowers start above the leaf head

Seed pod traits:
Y. recurvifolia - are erect
Y. gloriosa - hang down

Leaf traits:
Y. recurvifolia - flexible and hang down
Y. gloriosa - more rigid

Bloom time:
Y. recurvifolia - springtime
Y. gloriosa - blooms in fall with some blooms in spring. May bloom 2x per season.

Seed traits:
Y. recurvifolia - thin and large (like filamentosa)
Y. gloriosa - thick and small (like aloifolia)

The Yucca in the photo has a gloriosa type bloom, blooms in spring like recurvifolia, leaves look like recurvifolia. Seed pods hang or erect??????

Regarding speed of growth. From a small pup, that specimen must be about 10-12 years old. Jim Kelly of NJ sent me a small pup of the same form? Here's a photo from 2006 and 2011.

2006
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2011 (April photo, beat up from winter)
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It's not the fastest trunking Yucca. I got one from Tennessee which doubles the rate.

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 5:49 am

Cool thanks! I need a "trunking" yucca then. I thought they all did that. Guess my vaiegated filamentosahave no hope of doing that.
Guess I'll start looking online.Thanks
mike

TimMAz6 · Post by **TimMAz6** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:01 am

Hi Mike,

your correct, filamentosas won't trunk. Send me your address and I'll send you the tennesse form which grows into a monster. timbehan@comcast.net

this was a small pup when I planted it in 2004. PS, all those Yuccas in that area where planted in 2004.
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lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Jun 11, 2011 9:33 am

Tim,

Just 7 years for those beauties in the ground?

Gives me hope for my little y.rostratas...

Okanagan desert-palms · Sat Jun 11, 2011 11:57 am

I got to plant more yuccas. Awsome pics of what can be done.

Johnny palm seed!

sidpook · Post by **sidpook** » Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:03 am

Very cool stuff!!!!