Yucca filifera
- To: m*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Yucca filifera
- From: T* N*
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 12:24:59 +1000
I am on a 'rave' having just been out and photographed a 25ft tall specimen
of this astonishing plant in the Waite Arboretum. The plant curves over at
the top and from one of three stiff leaved rosettes hangs a 7ft long
waterfall of white flowers. The flowers are densely packed so the whole
resembles a crystaline stalactite plunging from overhead. Getting close up
I could see at the tip of the flower stalk more and more buds developing so
the flowers will go on for a few weeks yet. Of note is the observation that
the flower stalks and stems are white too so there is a remarkable purity
of colour that gleams against the bright blue sky and a stand of mature
Pinus radiata in the background. Why didn't more people plant these
beauties years ago? I'd have been glad to rescue on for my garden; as it is
I have to make do with a small immature plant that will take years to get
large enough to flower - and many more years to attain the dignified
stature of the plant I have just seen.
trevor n
Trevor Nottle
Garden Historian, Writer, Lecturer, Consultant
WALNUT HILL
5 Walker Street
Crafers
South Australia 5152
AUSTRALIA
Tel./ Fax. +61 +8 +8339 4210
e-mail <trevorn@torrens.tafe.sa.edu.au>
