Big Rostrata's home with a nice sized Supa Nova

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Big Rostrata's home with a nice sized Supa Nova

Post by andym » Mon Apr 15, 2013 5:23 pm

I popped down to HardyPalms in Bristol yesterday. It was to pay for my Yuccas. Nigel the owner was quite adamant that the Yucca Rostrata would be better off in my Vauxhall Astra than being shipped on a pallet. :shock: Amazingly I got it home. Nigel had also just received a container load of Palms from Brazil. His Trachy Novas were to die for.... good sized trunks with the leaves reaching nearly as high as the beautiful Yucca Rostrata .... my largest Yucca by far. The Yucca Elata has three heads and not two. The yucca treculeana is massive with a huge pot. Addiionally I bought a green Yucca Linearifolia with very long leaves but with damage... all arriving tomorrow on a pallet
Image Not a brill picture by any means but that Yucca Rostrata is over 7ft tall. The Trachycarpus Nova is well over double the size of my other Nova.


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Post by TimMAz6 » Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:52 pm

Hi Andy,

that Y. rostrata is a BEAUTY. It looks larger than 7 feet tall! :shock:
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Post by Cameron_z6a_N.S. » Mon Apr 15, 2013 10:07 pm

That's a great Y. rostrata, Andy! You're lucky to have such a wide selection of plants available to you within the UK.
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Post by hardyjim » Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:57 am

Nice!

Biggest Nova I have ever seen too!
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Post by igor.glukhovtsev » Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:29 am

Can not say WOW about the Nova 'cos I'm not a palmoholic (sorry Jim!), but yucca plants are just wonderful!
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Post by lucky1 » Tue Apr 16, 2013 10:23 am

You're lucky to have such a wide selection of plants available to you within the UK.
Ditto.
Tell Nigel to move to Canada please. :lol:

Wow!
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Post by andym » Tue Apr 16, 2013 12:48 pm

Thanks for your kind comments :D The other plants arrived today on a pallet. Getting too old to shift them though :lol:
I have to say I'm really taken with this Yucca Linearifolia. It will take pride of place in the Garden
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I have never seen leaves so long 8) Just a shame about the damage to the top leaves.
The Yucca Elata looks ok but the compost (thankfully) was bone dry. This plant was a pig to move

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The Yucca Treculeana is a magnificent plant. It had flowered and is now producing a new head

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For Jim a pic of the Nova trunk

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Here's the Jubaea/Butia hybrid
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I'm looking forward to planting them :D
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Post by hardyjim » Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:02 pm

Nice score!

Those ought to keep you-and the cat- entertained for some time :D
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Post by TimMAz6 » Sat Apr 20, 2013 5:59 pm

great looking plants Andy...............you must have a very large garden for all those big specimen plants :shock:
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