Description: Yellow Flowers, Golden Texas Yucca "Rare" - Hesperaloe parviflora(30 Seeds) (018B) 2023 Seeds Golden Texas Yucca (Hesperaloe parviflora 'Yellow') is a beautiful, uncommon yellow-flowered form of Texas Red Yucca, a low-water garden favorite. Plant it with otherHesperaloes to create superb bi-colored combinations that are sure to draw hummingbirds to your garden. Latin NameHesperaloe parviflora 'Yellow' Common NameYellow-flowered "red" yucca FamilyAsparagaceae, the Asparagus family. What kind of plant is it?Broadleaved evergreen perennial. Hardiness Zones 5 - 10. HabitClumping, with narrow grassy foliage and tall spikes of colorful flowers. Rate of GrowthFast when happy. Size in ten yearsThree to four feet tall and wide; five feet tall or taller in bloom. TextureGrassy and yucca-like. Grown forits flowers: Although not large—an inch and a half—the pale-yellow narrow pendant bells are in thick clusters up tall narrow spikes, and are very showy over a long period, in bud as well as bloom. Hummingbirds love them, too. its foliage: Thick clumps of narrow grassy evergreen foliage are excellent groundcover, and with good drainage in climates where Winters are cold but dry, have year-round effect. its toughness: As long as Winter drainage is excellent, Hesperaloe needs only sun and, perhaps, some water to get established. After that, no watering is needed. its rarity: "Red" yucca's flowers are, actually, a somewhat difficult-to-use fleshy pink that's too salmon to go with true pink, yet too pink to go with reds and oranges. This yellow-flowered cultivar significantly expands the design possibilities for this attractive and tough-as-nails perennial. Flowering seasonIn-ground, an unusually long season: Spring into Fall. Not as floriferous in containers; for me, bloom is August into September. CultureFull sun, excellent drainage, little water. In the dry climates it prefers, red yucca is so-self reliant it's a regular choice for unirrigated highway medians. One website said it was the most popular landscape plant in Tucson, Arizona.How to handle itExcellent drainage, especially over the Winter, is essential to hardiness, especially in Zone 7 and below. Red yucca is so drought-tolerant that enriched soil isn't necessary and, in fact, could be harmful precisely because it would retain more moisture. If your soil isn't naturally fast-draining, plant red yucca on a slope, or even just atop a gentle mound that you've re-dug with loads of sand and even gravel. Or grow it in a container. Even "hardy" plants are much less so when growing in containers, where their roots are also exposed to the same rapid temperature swings, day to night to day, of the leaves and stems. In Zone 8 and below, bring potted red yucca into shelter for the Winter. In a warm greenhouse it will keep active year-round, but it can also be kept dormant in a cool but sunny spot, where it should be watered only if leaves start to shrivel. In containers, red yucca could need some supplemental water in very hot weather during drought; in-ground plants develop deep and wide-spreading roots that aren't possible when being confined in containers. Fertilize in Spring and Summer to speed growth. Clip off spent flower-stalks; remove spent foliage at any time. That said, red yucca, though, is exceptionally low-maintenance. DownsidesSensitivity to Winter wetness limits in-ground use in other than "dry garden" settings where the plant is, otherwise, completely hardy to the low temperatures themselves VariantsThe species' flowers are variable, but are usually a fleshy pink that is difficult to combine with either pink, red, or yellow. A newer cultivar, 'Perpa', is a vivid and true red—a welcome breakthrough. There are a few other Hesperaloe species, either larger-scale or night-blooming, but none of which are so showy that they would be your first choice for a Hesperaloe. AvailabilityOn-line and, where the local climate is such that red yucca is commonly planted, at retailers.PropagationBy division. Native habitatHesperaloe parviflora is native to northeastern Mexico and southwestern Texas.
Price: 5.95 USD
Location: North Las Vegas, Nevada
End Time: 2023-11-22T12:21:26.000Z
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