The flowers on my variegated Yucca are opening nicely now and making quite a statement in the garden. The actual flower spike measures about 3 ft and the individual flowers are about 2 or 3 inches long so the whole plant is quite impressive at about 7ft tall.
It’s lovely to have a surprise like this when almost everything else is finishing and fading away. It doesn’t flower every year so it is appreciated all the more when it does and I always hope that it lasts for a good while before Jack Frost decides to invade the garden.
Do you have any last minute surprises in your garden?
Oh they are so beautiful Pauline. “much better than the average yucca, Booboo” !
Thanks Rosemarie! I feel it should flower in the summer but it is always this late.
Yucca blooms are so beautiful and these are especially lovely since they’re blooming at this time of year. Last minute surprises in my garden? Lots of aphids but nothing quite as nice as your surprise.
They are beasutiful aren’t they Peter, individually and the whole spike seen from a distance. You have lots of beautiful flowers, perhaps you have so many you can’t decide! Hope your aphids vanish when the cold weather arrives.
Well worth a post of its own Pauline! Absolutely stunning flowers (florets?), nature leaving the best till last!
Thank you Denise, I agree! It seems strange to leave flowering so late, but I suppose the plant knows what it is doing, I am just so pleased that it does eventually flower.
Wonderful Yukka, Pauline!
The whole October is big surprise to me as it has been so warm for us that I still have my dahlias and cannas in bloom!
Glad you like it Villu! We too have had it warmer than usual but I think it is all going to change at the weekend!
What a stunner!! She is late this year for sure. I had one that flowered every three years or so, I was so upset when the beast from the east killed her off.xxx
She certainly is stunning Dina, thank you! So sad that yours was seen off by the Beast, I must be lucky that mine survived.
Gosh, I have never seen yucca flowers close up – they are so prety!
The flowers are beautiful aren’t they Cathy. I must take it’s photo again as the whole of the flower spike has now opened.
Pretty, that is!
Don’t worry, I know what you meant!!