Asgarden yuccain our climate, Carolingian yucca and its many interesting varieties can be grown. The attractiveness of this plant is its bluish, pointed evergreen leaves and magnificent inflorescences. See whatgrowing yuccain Poland looks like, is it possiblereproduction of yuccain amateur conditions, and whatyucca diseases can endanger plants in your garden. Here's everything you need to know about the care ofyucca in the garden !
Garden Juka
Carolingian yucca(Yucca filamentosa) thanks to its high frost resistance can be successfully grown in our gardens asyuccaThis species is evergreen a plant with gladiolus-like narrow, ribbon-like, blue-green leaves. This interesting perennial is decorative, however, not only with pointed leaves, but above all with large, panicle-shaped, bell-shaped flowers. Inflorescences can reach up to 2 meters in height, and stiff, stately leaves gathered in dense clumps grow up to 70 cm. Its flowering period is in the summer, in late July and early August. This amazing drought-resistant plant looks great in ornamental grasses and in gravel beds.
Garden yucca - varieties
The varieties of yuccadiffer in color of the leaves and the height of the clumps. They all produce striking white inflorescences. They look good when planted individually or as a background of a lawn or an element of rock gardens.
Carolingian yucca 'Variegata'is a variety of garden yucca whose leaves have a white edge.Juka 'Bright Edge'is a relatively small garden yucca variety, as it is only 50 cm high. The leaves are creamy white along the edges. Another striking variety is thegarden yucca 'Color Guard'with sword-shaped leaves with a longitudinal stripe, growing up to 75 cm in height. Under the influence of low temperature, a pink color appears at the edges of the leaves. Inflorescences mounted on 2-meter shoots appear in June.
Garden yucca - cultivation
Garden Jukalikes a sunny, warm position. It is best if it is additionally sheltered from cold winds. It is moderately frost-resistant. It will look good individually and in combination with other flowers in a bed or along a path. It looks great among other drought-tolerant plants, as well as among grasses.Growing yuccais relatively easy.It is important to provide it with fertile, well-drained soil that contains calcium. Ingrowing yuccait is important to mulch the soil with compost. In spring and autumn, it is worth spreading a thin layer of such mulch. Additionally, at the beginning of the growing season, it can be supplemented with multi-component fertilizers. After flowering is over, cut off the blooming inflorescences.
Garden yucca - reproduction
Garden yuccais best propagated by division or by separation from suckers in spring. Yucca can be sown from seed, but results will be variable and unpredictable and plants are rarely as good as selected varieties.
Propagation of garden yuccaby division is a form of vegetative reproduction, very simple and giving satisfactory results. The division of the clump does not pose any problems, as the separated part quickly becomes an independent plant, as it has the roots and the above-ground part of the mother plant. It is best to perform this treatment in late autumn or spring.Move the soil next to the plant and use the forks to dig the yucca out of the ground. Then separate into two separate plants, checking that the plant parts are he althy. Cover the cut surfaces with fungicide, and thengarden yuccaplanted on a prepared stand.
Garden yucca - diseases
Garden yuccais a perennial usually resistant to diseases. However, as a result of some neglect of care or a wrong selection of the position, the plant may grow less, overwinter, start to turn yellow, and small spots appear on the leaves. High air humidity and high temperature favor the occurrence of fungal diseases.
How to recognizeyucca disease ? When round or irregularspots appear on the yucca leaves , and with time the tissue begins to crumble in the lesions, it may be a sign of leaf spot. Anotherdisease of yuccais anthracnose. Its symptoms are visible on all aerial parts of the plant.Necrotic lesions in the form of small spots appear on the leaves. Sometimes the leaves fall prematurely. The fungi hibernate on the shoots and infection lasts all year round. In the fight againstyucca diseasesspray with fungicides Topsin M 500 SC, Discus 500 WG or Switch 62,5 WG.
MSc Eng. Joanna Białowąs
