Outside protection

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:56 am

Very simple protection.

http://unkowndestination.blogspot.com/2 ... o-bed.html

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 2:42 pm

Aaron,

Couldn't tell if you used frost cloth or plastic (old eyes...)

That y.angustissima has sure performed well for you!
It seems to not be affected at all by cold winters with little snow.
My y.filamentosa are still damaged from last winter.

Cool wildlife pillars...I can see you joining them with your metal work into an arch or two.

No snow at all yet?
Barb

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:39 pm

lucky1 wrote:Aaron,

Couldn't tell if you used frost cloth or plastic (old eyes...)

That y.angustissima has sure performed well for you!
It seems to not be affected at all by cold winters with little snow.
My y.filamentosa are still damaged from last winter.

Cool wildlife pillars...I can see you joining them with your metal work into an arch or two.

No snow at all yet?
Barb

Just plastic

And yes I would love to do something like that with metal.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:55 pm

Thanks for the nice comments Erik, and also no heat.

Okanagan desert-palms · Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:45 am

Aaron nice pics. Is this the first year you have protected your Yuccas? I don`t remember you having any protection before.

John

Paul Ont · Post by **Paul Ont** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:11 pm

I like the angustissima. A really underused species. I'd like to try some here in the east. Given their native range, I'd expect they should be similar to Y. glauca in hardiness (the real question is how they will deal with our moisture... If they're anything like baccata, It'll be a struggle!)

Thanks for the link!

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:27 pm

Paul Ont wrote:I like the angustissima. A really underused species. I'd like to try some here in the east. Given their native range, I'd expect they should be similar to Y. glauca in hardiness (the real question is how they will deal with our moisture... If their anything like baccata, It'll be a struggle!)

Thanks for the link!

That is a good Q, because mine are in very good drainage. It is always hard for me to guess how things will do back east.

But it would be worth a try.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:39 pm

Okanagan desert-palms wrote:Aaron nice pics. Is this the first year you have protected your Yuccas? I don`t remember you having any protection before.

John

In some ways yes.
I almost always protect very small plants or yuccas like mohave and faxon yuccas, but when most get bigger I leave them be. That worked well until last winter and so I thought I would help some of the worst hit yuccas and ones I moved last summer.
So yes this year I have more yuccas covered.

PS I also covered my agave X that lived through last winter, I thought it might look better next year if I did.

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 8:20 pm

Can't see pics

but trust everyone like it

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:05 am

igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Can't see pics but trust everyone like it

Is is a couple.

hardyjim · Post by **hardyjim** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:48 pm

Work of art really.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:19 pm

hardyjim wrote:Work of art really.

Thanks Jim.

I always think about the people that thought I could do nothing with all that rock in the yard. I just laugh becuase that is why I liked it so much.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 8:30 pm

all that rock in the yard.

H is "with you", he's a rock nut too, loves building rock walls.
Well I suppose I don't have to explain, do I?

Seems every other house in our area is ripping up their lawns and replacing with rock and "xeriscape" plants because of high cost of water.
You're way ahead of folks!

igor.glukhovtsev · Post by **igor.glukhovtsev** » Fri Nov 25, 2011 8:15 am

DesertZone wrote:
igor.glukhovtsev wrote:Can't see pics
Is is a couple.

Yes, now I know what you were talking about!
Aaron! Great Stones! Remind some of our landscapes! Enclosures are nice and artistic too!