Brakelights® Red Yucca
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It is an evergreen, perennial, flowering herbaceous, see how the Brakelights® red yucca looks like in the garden and landscape.
Brakelights® Red Yucca is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b. Other winter zone scales for planting this yucca are ANBG: 1, 2, 3, 4; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3, H2; PHZ: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Yucca details
| Plant type | herbaceous, ornamental, flowering, border, containers | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | full sun, part sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright, fountain shape | ||||||||
| Flowering period | spring, summer | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 60 sm - 90 sm | ||||||||
| Spread | 60 sm - 60 sm | ||||||||
| Soil type | loamy, sandy, clay, silty | ||||||||
| Soil moist/drainage | well drained moist, well drained, dry | ||||||||
| Soil PH | 6.0 - 7.5 (slightly acidic - slightly alkaline) | ||||||||
| Water needs | once established, water if very dry | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | very low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, disease, drought, heat, cold, dry soil, rocky soil, salt soil / air | ||||||||
| Gardens types | container, xeriscape, rock | ||||||||
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Hesperaloe parviflora, also known as red yucca, hummingbird yucca, redflower false yucca and samandoque, is a plant that is native to Chihuahuan desert of west Texas east and south into central and south Texas and northeastern Mexico around Coahuila.
Red yucca has become popular in xeriscape landscape design for waterwise evergreen gardens in the Southwestern United States and California. The plant's qualities include drought tolerance, heat resistance, low maintenance needs, hummingbird attracting flowers, and an architectural form. Evergreen, compact growth habit with a very long bloom season.
Brakelights® Red Yucca is an improved cultivar of a Texas native closely related to Yucca but without the sharp spines. Unlike Yellow yucca the red one has a vibrant, brake light-red blooms are a great color improvement to this species.
This compact newer selection rarely sets seedpods, meaning more prolific flowering over an exceptionally long season.
Foliage of Brakelights® Red yucca reaches 2 ft (60 sm) tall and wide; blooms rise 2 to 3 ft (60 - 90 sm) taller. It has tough, narrow grass-like leaves with peeling hair like fibers on the edges. Brakelights® yucca is compact with dark red flowers that bloom repeatedly throughout the season. Excellent in containers, along walkways, in rock gardens and in harsh, difficult conditions. Well adapted to heat and drought, preferring full sun and well drained soil.
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Brakelights® Red Yucca in the landscape and gardening
