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how to use yucca 'color guard'

Posted by splitrock 6a (My Page) on
Sat, Jun 30, 12 at 10:51

After admiring Yucca "color guard" for years, I finally found some small inexpensive ones, so I bought three of them. Now I am wondering how to use them. What do they look good with? Will they really get 4 feet wide? I know they need good drainage. Advice or pictures of how you have sited yours would be great.


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RE: how to use yucca 'color guard'

Mine have been in clay soil for years so don't get any wider than two feet across. I have drainage problems too but they thrive somehow. I use mine as a border against a shed. Have six in a row and they do fine besides the occassional flattening by the groundhog.


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RE: how to use yucca 'color guard'

I have one in a flower bed with Agastache and other perennials like Echinaceas, Coreopsis, and Hesperaloe 'Brakelights'. It is a nice contrast for purples and reds. Ornamental Grasses and Roses look good with it too.

I also have 3 in big urn planters with Sedums and Delospermas around them. They don't get 4 feet wide unless you let the offshoot pups stay and grow there. I usually separate mine and put them in other places. They root and separate really easily.


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