.. wrote:
Hi,
I have a yucca in my front garden which was successfully moved
last Spring from a shady border in the back garden to it's present
location, thanks for the advice back then! Since then it has
flourished and in Autumn a flower spike started growing. Whilst the
individual flowers are now starting to die off a bit, overall it
still looks good. However, due to it's length ( flower spike must be
around 4ft tall) the plant is getting rocked a bit in the high winds
we have been getting recently. Could someone advise please, do I
allow the flower to die right back, or do I remove it now?
regards,

David

I allow mine to die back, then a few weeks later, remove the huge spiky
stalk, I try not to remove this until it's gone brown, I fear I may damage
the plant if I do it while it's green...another point to note, once it's
flowered, it usually sends up another head, ours now has 7 heads and six of
them flowered last year, but during dead leaf removal, I snapped off a huge
chunk of plant (3 of the heads and a 3 inch thick branch adjoining them to
the main trunk)...it may also send up shoots from the base, these can be
snapped off and will readily grow into new plants just by sticking them in a
pot of soil - no TLC required with these things, they're even growing in the
wasteland at the side of my house where some of them were unceremoniously
chucked a few years ago.