A spectacular tropical plant - garden yucca - can decorate your garden plot. It is very exotic and will look spectacular in any garden.
Nowadays, yucca has received well-deserved recognition among amateur gardeners. We will try to consider issues related to its proper fit and subsequent care.
Description and photo of garden yucca
Yucca garden is a perennial shrub. Its foliage is a kind of rosette; inside it the leaves grow in a spiral shape. They are usually green or gray in color and can grow up to 25-100 cm.
In the very center there is a peduncle with white flowers. Over the course of one season, approximately two hundred bell-shaped flowers bloom on the inflorescences, reaching approximately seven centimeters in length and five centimeters in width. After flowering, the seed fruit appears.Poisonous or not?
Biologists believe that indoor yucca has powerful energy and a strong character. All this is transmitted to the home: people get rid of uncertainty, excessive emotionality, disordered thoughts, become more independent, and make important decisions faster. Yucca helps melancholic people, but can harm choleric people .
Air purification can be considered an additional bonus. Toxicity occurs when leaves enter the body. Main symptoms: weakness, indigestion. Allergies can be caused by fungus or bacteria, which most often appear due to improper care.
However, you should not place yucca in a nursery or bedroom. The best option is a large living room with good ventilation. Many people believe that this flower should be placed at the entrance. Then he will protect people who visit the house from negativity.
Types of garden yucca
Two types of yucca are suitable for planting in open ground:
- Gray yucca is a fairly tall plant, not demanding on the soil, and can withstand dry and frosty weather. However, it is extremely sensitive to abundant moisture and watering.
- Yucca filamentosa is a tree-like bush, its sword-shaped leaves reach a length of up to 70 cm and a width of 3 to 10 cm. It is very unpretentious and can withstand air temperatures down to -20C without damage.
Growing [edit]
This plant is widely cultivated in warm temperate and subtropical climates and is valued as an architectural feature. It is reported to be uncultivated and naturalized in Italy, Turkey, Mauritius, Reunion, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. [9] In the home, the plant has average water needs and requires little maintenance other than removing dead leaves as the bush approaches its maximum height. [10] The plant is very frost-hardy, with no leaf damage at −20 °C (−4 °F) and can tolerate snowfall and freezing temperatures.
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[11] as well as the cultivars 'Variegata' [12] and
Bright Star
= 'Walbristar' [13] received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [14]
Yucca garden: planting and care
Before planting on the site, the yucca must be hardened off. For this purpose, it should be placed outside for several hours every day. The hardening hours are extended every day, with the result that after fourteen days the plant will be ready for planting.
Yucca is light-loving; illuminated areas on hills are ideal for it.
Lighting
Yucca loves well-lit places. It is advisable to place it near a window, avoiding bright rays of the sun. Grows well on the west or east side.
If street lighting is not enough, yucca feels comfortable under a fluorescent lamp.
The device is installed at a distance of 40 cm from the leaves and adjusted so that the total daylight hours are at least 16 hours.
With a lack of lighting, the leaves lose their elasticity, become stretched, and the plant weakens.
Landing Features
Young bushes need small holes, however, further growth should be taken into account. A three-year-old yucca needs a hole with a girth of 70 to 100 cm. The root is buried approximately 40-50 cm.
The best time to prepare the soil for planting is in the fall. Clay-stony, sandy, calcareous soils and black soil are suitable for yucca. They do not tolerate excess moisture well, therefore, it is better to plant them as far as possible from groundwater. The bottom of the hole can be sprinkled with gravel, sand or ash.
After this, the bush is carefully planted, sprinkling the roots with soil. It is better to work with gloves to avoid cuts on your hands. Water not too much, regularly, using water at room temperature.
Spring is best for planting; the air temperature at the time of planting should not fall below +10C at night.
Watering and subcortex
Yucca does not require special conditions and care. It should be watered regularly, but infrequently, after the top layer of soil has dried. Sometimes you can spray the leaves with water, especially if they dry out.
It is best to carry out this procedure in the evening or early morning.
During growth, the plant needs to be fed twice with minerals. First - in May, at the beginning of the growing season, then - immediately after flowering ends.
External links [edit]
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yucca gloriosa . |
- https://yuccaagavaceae.com/photos/details.php?image_id=82 Original Erstbeschreibung
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Yucca garden diseases
Yucca gets sick quite rarely. Sometimes plants experience yellowing and wilting of leaves. If this happens to the lower leaves of the plant, there is no need to worry - they tend to wither and fall off over time, this is a natural process.
Also, yellowing of the leaves occurs in cases where the plant is exposed to a draft or is frozen.
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Useful properties of the plant
Yucca has a number of beneficial properties that are widely used in folk medicine. Extracts, decoctions and infusions help strengthen the immune system, increase blood pressure and help treat the respiratory tract. In addition, they help improve the functioning of the stomach and intestines, remove cholesterol and toxins, and have a cleansing and rejuvenating effect. They are used to normalize metabolic processes and alleviate the patient’s condition with arthritis and arthrosis.
Preparations from yucca leaves and its juice have anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory effects; they are used to treat lichen, dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis. In addition to traditional medicine, the plant is used in the pharmacological industry; it contains a large amount of saponin, on the basis of which hormonal drugs are produced.
Yucca has also found wide use in veterinary medicine for the treatment of many diseases in animals. Since the plant is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, manganese, copper and many vitamins, in its natural growing conditions, where it is widespread, it is often added to livestock feed.
Transfer
With prolonged growth, the yucca grows and requires replanting, but it must be remembered that frequent replanting is harmful to the plant. Experienced gardeners in such cases recommend:
- Transplantation is carried out either in spring or at the end of summer. You need to remove the plant from the ground carefully, without damaging the roots. The emerging shoots are separated and planted separately.
- The new landing site should not be fundamentally different from the previous one.
- The area for planting yucca should be as light as possible.
- The transplanted plant needs to be fed after fourteen days. Flowering should be expected after a year from the moment of transplantation.
Links[edit]
- List of plants
- BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Great Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on June 26, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
- RHS AZ Encyclopedia of Garden Plants
. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965. - Flora of North America v 26 p 429
- Linnaeus, Karl von. 1753. Species Plantarum 1: 319.
- Wunderlin, R.P. 1998. Handbook of Florida Vascular Plants i–x, 1–806. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.
- Radford, A. E., H. E. Ahles & C. R. Bell. 1968. Handbook of the Caroline Vascular Flora i–lxi, 1–1183. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 23 February 2012, search for "Yucca recurvifolia"
- World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Kew, Yucca gloriosa
- "cals.arizona.edu". Retrieved March 1, 2007.
- "RHS plant breeder - Yucca gloriosa". Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- "RHS Plant Breeder - Yucca gloriosa 'Variegata'". Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- » Bright star = 'Walbristar' » . RHS. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
- "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2022. p. 108. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
- "hgic.clemson.edu". Retrieved March 1, 2007.
Insulation of garden yucca
A logical question often arises - how to properly insulate a garden yucca for the winter and is it necessary to do it?
Filamentous and glaucous yucca are frost-resistant, being quite painless in the face of a short drop in air temperature. In regions with cold winters, garden yucca needs to be insulated.
There are several methods of insulation:
Collect yucca leaves and tie them with twine. To prevent the ground from freezing, place the lower leaves on the ground. The soil near the bush is covered with dried leaves, and boards are laid on top to prevent it from being blown away by the wind.
After this, the bush is covered with polyethylene, the lower part of the trunk is sprinkled with soil.
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There is another method of insulation - using a large wooden box covered with dense material, roofing felt or polystyrene foam will do. Then the insulating structure is covered with dried leaves, after which it is covered with spruce branches or straw, and a film can be placed on top.
It is recommended to carry out insulation in late autumn, at the end of October-November, and it is worth removing the protection only when any threat of cold weather and frost has passed.
Garden yucca will help create an unusual exotic corner on your site. This beautiful tropical plant is extremely unpretentious. With proper care, yucca will delight you for a very long time.
