Yucca Plants produce lance-shaped leaves and towering, fragrant flower spikes on plants that are amazingly drought and cold resistant. Native to the Southwest, these plants are sun-worshippers and seem to thrive best in poor soil with exceptional drainage. During the first growing season we recommend more frequent watering in order to establish a strong, deep root system, but once established, the Yucca requires almost no care. Most yucca flowers are creamy white, but newer hybrids have also produced crimson varieties; they all attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
Yucca, pronounced YUK-ah, is also commonly called Adam's Needle, Soapweed, Soapwort, Spanish Dagger and Spanish Bayonet. If you have ever come into unintentional contact with the leaves of the Yucca, you know where the latter two common names come from. Unlike most Latin names though, Yucca is easy to pronounce and most people recognize the plant by that name. Pruning the flower stalk can be done at anytime, even while it is flowering; leave about 4-inches of the flower stalk when cutting back and be sure to wear thick gloves to guard against that oh-so-sharp foliage.
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