Yucca elata

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I know it's not small but it is deserty. :rolleyes: Here is my specimen of Yucca elata. This is starting to out grow it's space.You can't squeeze by it without a puncture wound to two, :'( so I've resorted to Bob's trick of clipping the tips off the offending leaves. It makes it a lot more user friendly. It is starting to grow a trunk and I hope that in a few more seasons it will high enough to sneak under the leaves.

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Mark McDonough's picture

Mark McDonough

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 5:50pm

Particularly fine white flowers on that one.  What is the pale color Penstemon in front?

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John P. Weiser

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 6:42pm

Mark
The Penstemon is Penstemon palmeri. It is one of the few scented Penstemons.

Aaron
Your plant has the nice gray/green leaves :D.  Mine is just plane old green.  :-\

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Robert Nold

Thu, 12/01/2011 - 7:41pm

There was one growing some miles south of me that had a quite respectable trunk. You don't see very many tree yuccas in Denver and here was this Y. elata growing in a front yard next to a green lawn. Very strange combination.

Bob

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DesertZone (not verified)

Fri, 12/02/2011 - 5:59am
Weiser wrote:

Mark
The Penstemon is Penstemon palmeri. It is one of the few scented Penstemons.

Aaron
Your plant has the nice gray/green leaves :D.  Mine is just plane old green.  :-\

I noticed that, I don't think I have ever seen one with green leaves before.