Yellow Yucca
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It is an evergreen, perennial, flowering herbaceous, see how the Yellow yucca looks like in the garden and landscape.
Yellow 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 | ||||||||
| Life cycle | perennial, evergreen | ||||||||
| Sun needs | full sun, part sun | ||||||||
| Growth habit | upright, fountain shape | ||||||||
| Flowering period | summer, early summer | ||||||||
| Height at maturity | 90 sm - 2 m | ||||||||
| Spread | 60 sm - 90 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 | xeriscape, rock | ||||||||
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Yellow Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora), also known as hummingbird yucca, samandoque and red yucca / redflower false yucca (but with yellow flowers!) 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 or yellow tubular flowers are borne on branching flower stalks (inflorescences) up to 5 ft (1.5 m) tall from late spring to mid-summer. Foliage reaches 2 to 3 ft (60 - 90 sm) tall, blooms reach 4 to 6 ft (120 - 180 sm) tall.
Yellow yucca is a wonderful broadleaved evergreen blue-green, fine-textured slim foliage. Summer brings a tall spike of yellow flowers rising high above the foliage. A Southwestern native, yucca has yellow, waxy trumpet-shaped blooms that last for weeks annd attracts hummingbirds and butterflies.
This evergreen species is very popular in xeriscape landscape design for public and private gardens in California and the Southwestern United States. The plant's qualities include drought tolerance, heat resistance, low maintenance needs, hummingbird attracting flowers, and an architectural form. It also is a spineless alternative to Agave and Yucca horticultural species, since Yellow yucca does not have spikes and sword-like leaves which can injure you.
This magnificent Southwestern native produces five-foot-tall wands of bright yellow, waxy, inch-long trumpet flowers in early spring. Blooms tower above the mound of thick, sword-shaped, gray-green, succulent foliage, and persist until fall. A must have for sunny xeric and waterwise gardens, as a specimen or in a showy mass planting.
Yucca roots grow deep and are tolerant of poor soil, Yellow yucca can grow about anywhere, but really do best in moderate fertility. Widely adaptable in USDA hardiness zones 5 and up to 10, Yucca are tough, water-wise, Xeriscaping plants, you can almost plant and forget these tough succulents.
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Yellow Yucca in the landscape and gardening
