thriving in full sun and sharp drainage where heat and drought defeat softer shrubs
so a single specimen in transition often carries both leaf forms at once
smothering the canopy so thickly that the foliage all but vanishes
A towering heirloom of Southern gardens
a sensation when shown in London in 1864
Hesperaloe parviflora 25/12 Restock thriving in full sun andRed yucca is one of those plants that looks like architecture and behaves, in the best sense, like a weed, thriving on neglect while holding a clean sculptural shape all year. From a low rosette of slender, arching, blue gray leaves, each edged with curling white threads, the plant throws tall, wiry flower wands to four or five feet through the warm months, hung with dangling tubular blooms in coral pink to deep red. Hummingbirds find the flowers