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Bright Edge Yucca This variegated evergreen woody perennial is grown for its architectural quality, as its striped, sharp-tipped, sword-shaped leaves stand out in any border or as a specimen container plant. Add to that a flower spike that can reach 6 feet or more carrying dozens of pendulous, cream-colored flowers in summer, and you have a real show stopper. ‘Bright Edge’ is much smaller-growing than the species, and its blue-green leaves have a thin margin of bright yellow. In addition, the leaf margins have curly white threads, giving the plant its specific epithet of “filamentosa.” Yuccas are also extremely easy to grow and drought and heat tolerant. Yucca filamentosa is native to the eastern United States and was one of the first North America plants grown in British gardens in the sixteenth century. Adam’s needle is another common name for this yucca. Variegated yuccas perform best in moderately rich, well-drained or sandy soil. They tolerate poor soil (growing more slowly) and are very drought tolerant once established. Variegated yuccas prefer full sun but tolerate part shade. Keep these plants looking good by cutting off dead and damaged leaves at their bases. ‘Bright Edge’ is a clump-forming, evergreen shrub. It does not develop a trunk, as do some species of yucca, but it does produce multiple rosettes of leaves. The lance-shaped leaves are about 18 inches long and 1 inch wide, blue-green with creamy yellow leaf margins. They are held erect, particularly the younger leaves at the center of the rosette. This shrub is slow-growing but will eventually form a clump with multiple rosettes of 5 feet wide by 24 inches high. The flower spikes reach 5 feet or more, carrying panicles of cream-colored, 2-inch-wide, bell-shaped flowers. One gallon size plants.
Price: $9.50
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Fun Plant FactsAn African bugleweed synthesises in its tissues a substance similar to the hormone that controls the development of caterpillars. If a caterpillar is persuaded, experimentally, to ingest that substance, then when it turns into a butterfly it will develop two heads and die. -David Attenborough, The Private Life of Plants, p70 84% of a raw apple and 96% of a raw cucumber is water. A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. A pineapple is a berry. Arrowroot, an antidote for poisoned arrows, is used as a thickener in cooking (so if you ever get shot with a poison arrow, do not go to a doctor, look in your kitchen cabinet. Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis sativa (marijuana) on their plantations. In the Netherlands, in 1634, a collector paid 1,000 pounds of cheese, four oxen, eight pigs, 12 sheep, a bed, and a suit of clothes for a single bulb of the Viceroy tulip. No species of wild plant produces a flower or blossom that is absolutely black, and so far, none has been developed artificially. Peanuts are beans. Quinine, one of the most important drugs known to man, is obtained from the dried bark of an evergreen tree native to South America. The California redwood - coast redwood and giant sequoia - are the tallest and largest living organism in the world. The largest single flower is the Rafflesia or "corpse flower". They are generally 3 feet in diameter with the record being 42 inches. The oldest living thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old. The rose family of plants, in addition to flowers, gives us apples, pears, plums, cherries, almonds, peaches and apricots. Asparagus is a member of the lily family, which also includes onions, leeks, and garlic. The bright orange color of carrots tell you they are an excellent source of Vitamin A which is important for good eyesight, especially at night. Vitamin A helps your body fight infection, and keeps your skin and hair healthy. Onions contain a mild antibiotic that fights infections, soothes burns, tames bee stings and relieves the itch of athletes foot. One bushel of corn will sweeten more than 400 cans of pop. These facts are gathered from the internet and may or may not be true. |
