A couple Feb yucca pics
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A couple Feb yucca pics
Here's a couple of pics from today. The first one is a pic of my largest y. rostrata.
Here's one of my largest y. elata.
So far they are looking good. No too much damage.
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Here's one of my largest y. elata.
So far they are looking good. No too much damage.
Regards,
Jay
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Looking real nice you guys, glad to see the yuccas doing so well
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
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Here's to all the global warming pushers, may your winters be -30 below and four feet of snow in your driveway. Because I want you happy.
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Still snow covered.
I still am waiting to see if my Yucca flaccida garland gold and my Y. filamentosa golden sword have come through the winter undamaged. Despite 3 days of warm temps, I still can't see any part of a leaf. My rhododendrons have broken the surface and they look a little dehydrated. I won't be able to see my bamboo, Kolkwitzia and buddleai( sp) for another couple of weeks.
When I planted them all, I made sure that they were out of the wind and in a position so that the snow would cover them.
I guess that I did a good job.
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When I planted them all, I made sure that they were out of the wind and in a position so that the snow would cover them.
I guess that I did a good job.
Allen
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To 1 foot? I've never protected mine over the winter. They were fairly tidy the first 4 or 5 years, now we've got some volunteers coming up here and there. I hack mine as close to the ground as my back allows EVERY late winter, and they come back gangbusters. 8 feet tall in no time.
I've never seen a white one; that would be stunning with the pink and purples.
I've never seen a white one; that would be stunning with the pink and purples.
Cutting them back sounds like a good idea. The nursery I got them from told me to leave them untouched. They would probably die back to the ground over winter and I should cut off the dead branches in the spring.
I hope that they survive. I have 2 navy blue, 2 royal purple and 2 reddish purple. When I got them there were a couple of bedraggled white plants but no pink ones.
I have the Royal purple ones in behind my pink echinacea and will be putting some dwarf shasta daisies in front of the echinacea in the spring. The planting should look good in a couple of years.
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I hope that they survive. I have 2 navy blue, 2 royal purple and 2 reddish purple. When I got them there were a couple of bedraggled white plants but no pink ones.
I have the Royal purple ones in behind my pink echinacea and will be putting some dwarf shasta daisies in front of the echinacea in the spring. The planting should look good in a couple of years.
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I don't know what they were thinking.
I've never dealt with this nursery because it is some distance from home. I was out on a drive north west of Spruce Grove and saw the nursery's sign. I had never gone in before, but thought what the hell. I haven't seen buddleia around Edmonton before. Most zone 5 plants don't do well around here unless we get a lot of snow. So when the opportunity was there I bought 6 of them without any idea where I was going to plant them.
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I've never dealt with this nursery because it is some distance from home. I was out on a drive north west of Spruce Grove and saw the nursery's sign. I had never gone in before, but thought what the hell. I haven't seen buddleia around Edmonton before. Most zone 5 plants don't do well around here unless we get a lot of snow. So when the opportunity was there I bought 6 of them without any idea where I was going to plant them.
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Nice that they had all those colours in stock.
The nursery was partly right. They should've said (because it's Edmonton), wait until early April to hack them down to the ground. They're probably worried people would cut them down in the Fall, which opens the canes to freezing right down through the roots. I only do that if one is growing as a volunteer where I don't want it. If there's no snow cover, they generally croak.
But with a good amount of snow even those pull through.
And Allen, that's what makes you a gardener.
God, I've come home from a road trip, three people jammed in the front seat, 'coz the back seat and the trunk were full of plants, and I had no idea where ANY of those plants were going!
The nursery was partly right. They should've said (because it's Edmonton), wait until early April to hack them down to the ground. They're probably worried people would cut them down in the Fall, which opens the canes to freezing right down through the roots. I only do that if one is growing as a volunteer where I don't want it. If there's no snow cover, they generally croak.
But with a good amount of snow even those pull through.
And Allen, that's what makes you a gardener.
God, I've come home from a road trip, three people jammed in the front seat, 'coz the back seat and the trunk were full of plants, and I had no idea where ANY of those plants were going!
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