A perennial evergreen shrub with blue-green wits growing from a wall outlet is often found in our flower beds. This is a yucca garden or filamentous. Much attention is attracted by unusual threads hanging along the edges of the leaves, and a huge inflorescence in the form of a panicle with yellowish-white bells. Homeland plants is the United States, but it is well adapted to the European territory.
- All the details of planting yucca garden
- How to care for yucca in the garden
- Wintering yucca garden
- How Yucca garden breeds
- How to use yucca in landscape design
All the details of planting yucca garden
Consider how to plant a yucca. An important role in this process has the correct selection of a place for landing. The plant prefers dry, sandy soil or rocky terrain. Refers to unpretentious and hardy.
If there is a plot with a constant sun on your flower bed, then this is exactly the place. On a plot with dense black soil or clay it is necessary to add sand to the roots so that they are well ventilated.Also do not forget about the drainage, then the water will not linger. If the soil is not very fertile, then before temkak planting yucca, you must make in the hole humus.
How to care for yucca in the garden
Although the plant belongs to the unpretentious, but you need to know the features of care for him. Care for yucca includes the proper watering and fertilizing, as well as the removal of dried foliage and peduncles. Watering is carried out rarely, trying not to fill the center of the outlet. This will prevent crown decay. It is also necessary to regularly loosen the soil under the plant and remove weeds. This will allow the roots to breathe, and the lower leaves of the bush do not rot.
Yucca can be fed in the spring, before flowering or after flowering. For this you need to know how to feed the yucca garden in spring. If you want to support the plant during flowering, then use complex fertilizers. Nitrogen-based fertilizers will help the plant to accelerate growth. Do not fertilize the bush in late autumn, because it needs to rest and prepare for winter.
Caring for a plant also provides for the timely removal of faded flower stalks and dry leaves. Since the plant is very prickly, the pruning must be carried out with gloves.
Wintering yucca garden
Yucca garden can withstand temperatures up to 10 degrees, but in the winter it is better to cover it from frost. Properly shelter a yucca for the winter using a simple box the size of an adult plant. Before sheltering the leaves of yucca collected up and tied. Then covered with a box and sprinkled with foliage. Remove the frame with the onset of positive temperatures. But to delay this process is not recommended, because mold can form under the box.
If the terrestrial part of the plant dies as a result of severe frosts, in the spring it must be cut and the plant watered. It is highly likely that the garden yucca will resume growth from dormant buds of the root. The rhizome is deep, persistent, so the frost is almost impossible to.
How Yucca garden breeds
It is better to transplant a yucca garden in the spring.
Yucca garden can be propagated in several ways:
- Seeds. For reproduction of yucca with the help of seeds, it is imperative to carry out pollination of flowers.
By planting daughter outlets that form near the main plant. Consider how to seed yucca filamentous. Child outlets are easily separated. When replanting a shrub, it is necessary to preserve as much of the root system of a given plant as possible and not to dry it out, and dry and sprinkle the cut areas with cinnamon or crushed coal. The transplanted plant is not fed for about a month.- Root cuttings. To do this, use root cuttings 5-10 cm long. They are treated with coal and planted in a greenhouse in peat soil. From the sleeping buds grow new sockets.
- Trimming. It is carried out in the spring. By trimming the growth point, they stimulate the development of dormant buds,and the plant gives several sockets. Using pruning, they also rejuvenate the plant and save it as a result of rotting. Trimming is carried out with a sharp knife.
By planting daughter outlets that form near the main plant. Consider how to seed yucca filamentous. Child outlets are easily separated. When replanting a shrub, it is necessary to preserve as much of the root system of a given plant as possible and not to dry it out, and dry and sprinkle the cut areas with cinnamon or crushed coal. The transplanted plant is not fed for about a month.How to use yucca in landscape design
Yucca garden is widely used in landscape design. It is valued not only for exotic flowers, but also for the refined leaves of a bluish-green color. Often it is used to create alpine slides. It is important to know that the plant can be planted both in groups and singly, but at the same time remember that it needs a lot of space. An overgrown yucca can occupy about a meter of territory. Along with her planted sun-drought and drought-resistant plants. For example, daylily, irises, gelenium, coreopsis, liatris, sage, etc. Due to the prickly foliage, the plant is not recommended to be planted as a curb. 
Yucca in one place can grow more than 10 years. She has a friendly character and a bright appearance, so in a flowerbed she is most suitable for a central place.
