Re(2): Category: Dumb Questions
- To: t*@picknowl.com.au
- Subject: Re(2): Category: Dumb Questions
- From: B*@monterey.edu (Barry Garcia)
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:31:01 -0700
tnottle@picknowl.com.au writes:
>I could be wrong but all the yuccas I grow - about 15, and all the
>agaves about the same number die after flowering. I think this is a
>general rule for both genera as they are both Liliaceae and that
>seems to be the habit of all members of the tribe. Some Yuccas
>and Agaves take several years to die after flowering.
Up the street from my house, there is a house on the corner that has a
Yucca growing right next to the sidewalk. This yucca has been there for as
long as I can remember, and flowers every year. It seems to keep flowering
from the main "trunk" (well at least I think it does. Perhaps it grows new
rosettes of leaves from the top and those flower, but it has never been
cut back nor has it died). The owners cut it back sometimes and it always
grows new rosettes of leaves from the trunks they do cut back (the main
trunk has been uncut for seven years now). Right now it has finished
flowering and seems to keep sending up new flowering stalks.
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