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Old 31-01-2006, 03:36 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Phil L
 
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Default Centre piece suggestion please

Broadback wrote:
Any ideas as to what to place in the middle of a 12 foot diameter
round bed. It needs to be rabbit resistant, I would like a bit of a
wow factor and interest all year round. The bed is in full sun.


We have a Yucca, which looks like a palm tree...it started off as a 'spiky
thing' and now it's six feet tall with a six inch trunk! - when it flowers
in summer, the flower spikes are a further 4 feet tall, I've taken dozens of
side shoots from it and potted them up and they have all grown, some even
grown where they were thrown onto a heap, they're as tough as old boots.
The flowers never get polinated though and so never seed, apparently it
takes a certain type of moth which doesn't live over here.

I'l see if I can dig out some snaps...