A couple Feb yucca pics

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:55 pm

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.

Regards,
Jay

Okanagan desert-palms · Post by **Okanagan desert-palms** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 5:26 pm

Jay looks good. What was your low for the winter at your place?
John

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:16 pm

I am glad that they came through the winter in good shape.

It will be most of a month before I find out how my yuccas did.

Allen

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:25 pm

John, My low for that spot in my yard was a bone chilling -23c My cacti bed up against my house was -18c

Allen, I hope your yuccas make it through ok. What types are you growing at your place.

Regards,
Jay

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:12 am

Just took these pics...yuccas look a bit beaten up. Tough winter on them, thank goodness for lots of snow when it was so cold in November.

DesertZone · Post by **DesertZone** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:29 pm

Looking real nice you guys, glad to see the yuccas doing so well

macario · Post by **macario** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:58 pm

Yep you guys definatley have a good thing going there.

Post by **Jay-Admin** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:24 pm

Thanks.

Can't wait to plant some more yuccas soon.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:38 am

I've heard...pick your Yucca spot carefully. Coz apparently you need a backhoe to get it out if it's been in the ground for 10 years.

Fortunately, I've never had to move an old one.

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:33 am

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.

Allen

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:30 pm

Edmonton HAS had warm weather...wow.
Bet they'll come through fine with that well-selected spot. Winter winds seem to do more damage than cold.
Did you buy the pink or purple Buddleia? I've got a few of each and love 'em, so do the butterflies when it's not windy.

turtile · Post by **turtile** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:53 pm

The White Butterfly Bush is the hardiest. I had a pink and a white one at my old house. If you want it to grow best, cut it down to 1FT each year (also makes it easier to protect). They would grow 8Ft plus during the season.

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:28 pm

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.

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:48 am

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.

Allen

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:57 am

Yes, that'll be a nice colour combination.
Strange that the nursery said to not hack 'em down late winter each year...Buddleia blossom only on new wood (unlike, say, forsythia that blossoms on 2 year wood).

Alchris · Post by **Alchris** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:52 pm

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.

Allen

lucky1 · Post by **lucky1** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:59 pm

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!

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A couple Feb yucca pics

A couple Feb yucca pics

Yucca

Still snow covered.

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