Yucca Plants, Varieties and Yucca Plants for Sale

Yucca Plants, Care, Profile and Growing Hints

Yucca Plant, care, species and varieties for sale. The Yucca plant is sometimes known as 'soapweed', 'Adams Needle' and Spanish Dagger. Most Yucca are a fast growing shrubs to small trees originally from Mexico through to Arizona.

Yucca filanentosa and Yucca elephantipes are two popular species. Yucca harrimaniae is a lower growing variety that would suite a rock garden. Grow in the garden or in a pot or conatiner as a feature in a courtyrad garden. Yucca species include : schottii, elephantipes, marginata, baileyii, treculeana, australis and rostrata. Yucca gloriosa is pictured right

Yucca plants prefer a warm position and a well drained soil. Yucca tend to grow to be quite large however they are suitable for indoors in a well lit position Yucca elephantipes is suitable for growing in a large pot. Yucca filamentosa is known as 'Adam's Needle' and with its lance lice foliage and colorful flowers is a stunning plant, look for cultivars such as 'bright edge', 'variegata', 'ivory tower' and 'golden sword'

Yucca rostrata 'sapphire skies' is a cultivar of Yucca rostrata, will grow well in a pot or container as a specimen plant.

Growing Yucca Plants

Use of Yucca plants in Landscaping

Yucca can be grown in the garden or in pots or containers and do well both indoors with sufficient lighting as well as outdoors. Used widely with modern architecture and in commercial settings they are low maintenance and hardy. They work well both in mass plantings and as feature plants.