Yucca
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Including Yucca ‘Garland’s Gold’ and ‘Sapphire Skies’

Yucca

Yuccas can be found over much of North America, and the architectural assertiveness of their strong, swordlike blades is prized by gardeners. Each year, stout leafless stems bear large clusters of waxy, alabaster-colored floral pendants. Needing little or no maintenance and thriving best in well drained soil, these toughs will not complain where summers are hot or humid, or long and dry. Zone 5/6

Yucca aloifolia ‘Purpurea’    

Purple Aloe Yucca

Dressed in gray icy greens and powder blues with a dusky purple overlay, this handsome pastel-hued toughie is native to the American southeast. Rigid evergreen leaves with sharp pointed tips and fine-toothed margins forge a rounded barrel-like rosette that develops slowly, its amethyst coloration intensifying as the weather heats up. Waxy white pendulous flowers draped on stout panicles deliver late summer sparkle.

Unfazed by mettlesome deer, drought, moisture and humidity, ‘Purpurea’ can harmonize with Melianthus ‘Antonow’s Blue’ and Festuca ‘Superba’.

Blooms July – August.

Size: 2'–4' high x 3' wide; hardy to zone 6.

Yucca aloifolia ‘Purpurea’ (P-1495)
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Yucca ‘Garland’s Gold’  

Yuccas can be found over much of North America, and the architectural assertiveness of their strong, swordlike blades is prized by gardeners. Most effective en masse, this cultivar’s stiff, spiky leaves comprise a closely set, evergreen rosette. Outlined in green, they flex slightly and are marked down the center with a bold, creamy gold stripe, and an added luster is achieved from long, silvery margin fibers that uniquely seem to capture the moonlight!

Each year, stout leafless stems bear large clusters of waxy, alabaster-colored floral pendants. Needing little or no maintenance and thriving best in well drained soil, these toughs will not complain where summers are hot or humid, or long and dry. Strength is spotlighted when ‘Garland’s Gold’ is partnered with Plectranthus ‘Longwood Silver’s felted foliage. Zone 5/6.

Blooms June–August.

Size: 5' high x 3' wide; hardy to zone 6.

Yucca ‘Garland’s Gold’ (P-1231)
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Yucca rostrata ‘Sapphire Skies’  

Blue-beaked Yucca

A beguiling sculptural rosette of powder blue, thin pointed blades, year-round good looks and exceptional hardiness is what this shrubby, fine textured Yucca has to offer. Relatively short, flexible leaves forge a luminous specimen well suited for a vessel or the dry garden.

Selected by Sean Hogan of Cistus Nursery from seed he collected in northern Mexico, it will eventually form an upright unbranched plant that prefers to bake in a hot sunny spot with sharp drainage and alkaline soil, while protection from excessive cold-season water and wind helps ensure a successful overwintering.

Blooms July – August.

Size: 4' high x 3' wide; hardy to zone 6.

Yucca rostrata ‘Sapphire Skies’ (P-1471)
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