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[INDOOR-GARDENING:375] Re: Yucca

Thanx for the advice Carl. I'm still a novice at the plant game & have been
a bit negligent as I haven't even found out what species of Yucca I have,
which is next on my list of priorities.

Warda

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Carl Gustafson [SMTP:carl.gustafson@cbis.ece.drexel.edu]
	Sent:	Friday, April 23, 1999 5:10 PM
	To:	indoor-gardening@prairienet.org
	Subject:	[INDOOR-GARDENING:348] Re: Yucca

	>> I have a yucca standing outside my front door, but I'm not sure
how to take
	>> care of it. Someone told me not to water it too much, but what
about winter
	>> approaching & all the rain water it will soak in? Should I bring
it inside?

	Depends on the species. Some are very hardy, and some not so. For
example,
	Y. torreyi (first year seedlings) in pots under a slight overhang on
the
	northeast of the house survived over winter here in the Philadelphia
area.
	The plants DID get rained on (we rarely get significant snow). Yucca
	schottii in the same situation did not survive. Y. torreyi,
schottii,
	glauca, and brevifolia all did find inside a detached garage (from
November
	to April) with no water, no heat, and no light. Again all first and
second
	year seedlings in pots. Don't recall results with Y. baccata or Y.
	harrimanae.

	There is at least one Yucca species native to the Northeast. The
plants are
	used in landscapes here, also.

	BTW, mine are in a soil mix of 1:1:1 play sand:perlite:Montgomery
County
	(Penna) dirt, and are watered heavily during the growing season, to
	encourage growth. The plants have large underground
roots/tubers/whatevers.
	Moving a mature plant growing in the ground is traumatic on the
mover, not
	to mention the movee.
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