In message , Phil L
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June Hughes wrote:
In message ,
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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?
Over the past twenty odd years, we have treated our yucca plant very
badly and it is still thriving. Bas was so fed up with it around 20
years ago that he dug it out completely but it came back with a
vengeance four years later. I keep giving the babies away to friends
but it still goes on and on. I don't see that cutting off the flowers
will do it any harm.

There was some discussion here a few months ago about whether or not
the plant one person was asking about was in fact a yucca and IIRC it
turned out to be something else. The flowers shoot out of the plant
on a long stalk and are whitish, bell-shaped clusters, each flower
being a couple of inches long. HTH

Yep, this sounds like mine too...they never seed though, I'm sure I read
somewhere that they can only be polinated by some tropical moth or other
insect? - I've seen our native bees and other bugs having a go at the
flowers though, but apparently they are the wrong shape / size / both.


I don't know how mine has propagated but it has had lots of babies over
the years. They normally come up around the base of the plant. Someone
here knows all about them and I can't think who it is.
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June Hughes