Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca
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It is an evergreen, perennial, flowering herbaceous, see how the Sapphire skies beaked blue yucca looks like in the garden and landscape.
Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca is suitable for growing in USDA hardiness zones: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11a, 11b. Other winter zone scales for planting this yucca are ANBG: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; RHS: H7, H6, H5, H4, H3, H2, H1c; 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 | summer | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 2 m - 5 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 90 sm - 1 m | ||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca also called Yucca rostrata or beaked yucca, is a tree-like plant belonging to the genus Yucca. The species of yucca is native to Texas, and the Chihuahua and Coahuila regions of Mexico and occurs in areas that are arid with little annual rainfall.
This evergreen yucca is used as a bold architectural element in containers or waterwise borders. Striking, narrow, stiff, baby blue leaves are shorter than others of the species and form a dense crown atop an elegant single trunk. A showy spike of white flowers emerges at maturity.
Yucca are exceptionally easy to grow in the ground or in containers provided they are planted right and in the right spot, it can reach 8 to 10 ft tall (2.5 -3 meters) and 3 to 4 ft (1 meter) wide in 10 years.
Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca will tolerate poor soil conditions if dry, crumbly and very well drained soil. However Yucca rostrata responds well to good rich organic matter, this encourages faster growth.
Thrives in average to lean, well-drained soil, with an alkaline pH. Water deeply, regularly during first few growing seasons to establish root system, allowing soil to dry slightly between intervals. Once established, yucca will tolerate to drought, so you can reduce the irrigation frequency.
Fertilize sparingly and prune away old, unsightly foliage in early spring.
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Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Yucca in the landscape and gardening
