Red Yucca
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It is an evergreen, perennial, flowering herbaceous, see how the Red yucca looks like in the garden and landscape.
Red Yucca is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. Other winter zone scales for planting this yucca are ANBG: 1, 2, 3; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3; PHZ: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a.
Yucca details
| Plant type | herbaceous, ornamental, flowering, containers | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | part shade, full sun, part sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright, fountain shape | ||||||||
| Flowering period | summer, fall | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 90 sm - 1 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 1 m - 2 m | ||||||||
| Spacing | 2 m - 2 m or more for space between plants | ||||||||
| 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 | average to low, very low when established | ||||||||
| Maintenance / care | very low | ||||||||
| Resistance to | deer, disease, drought, heat, insect, dry soil, rocky soil | ||||||||
| Gardens types | container, xeriscape, rock | ||||||||
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Red Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora), also known as hummingbird yucca, samandoque, redflower false yucca and yellow yucca (but with red flowers!) is a flowering 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 deep rose-pink to ded flower's color and do not requires a lot of water when established, so it suitable for desert-like rocky gardens.
Growing in a mound 3 to 4 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, the Red Yucca is ideal for use as a specimen in small spaces or containers, and in groupings or mass plantings in sunny to partly shaded larger landscape borders and home foundation plantings. Looks very nice near boulders and is also makes a nice solo or centerpiece in container gardens.
Hummingbirds enjoy the flowers, but this plant may not be the best choice for an area that is accessible by deer. Deer will eat the blooms but will spare the foliage. The plant is an evergreen that will provide you much needed greenery during the gloomy months of winter and best of all, the plant is extremely hardy and will thrive on very little water making Red Yuccas a major recommendation for any drought tolerant Xeriscape landscaping.
A fine addition to Asian theme gardens, red theme gardens, perennial gardens, rock gardens, tropical look gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs) gardens. Yucca can be combined with other low water need plants such as junipers, barberry, abelia, ornamental grasses, sedums, and loropetalum.
Red Yucca is very easy to grow in a moist to somewhat dry soil of average to low fertility and full sun or part shade. No maintenance required except to remove spent flower stalks.
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Red Yucca in the landscape and gardening
