I have a yucca, and it's pretty tame and sends up a long shoot of beautiful creamy white flowers aka Adam's Needle, Needle Palm, or Spanish Bayone. The fronds do bend. Mine is grown in the NorthEast and does quite well for what you would consider a desert plant, but they thrive to USDA zone 5. I've used these in many of my designs. We had varigated ones too. They are a perennial plant usually grown to 2 -3 ' tall. They are not invasive. There are other species of the plant related to this one.
Just removed a Yucca that the previous sellers of my house planted. The darn thing hurt me everytime I attempted to weed around it so I said to heck with this and gave it to my mother.
Looks like some type of Lilly - my neighbor has this in her front yard & it seems to bloom only once a year with yellow lilly type flowers. By the way, you need to CLEAN that plant up - remove all the dead debris & you just might start to see flowers!! The dead material on plants seem to suck the strength out of them, so it's important for you to do this
Since you are from a northern state... it looks like a clump of iris. The bulbs need to be seperated in order to promote blossom growth. The bulbs become smaller in a large overgrown clump and can't produce flowers.... I had iris and gladiolas that did that in my yard. I learned the hard way...Pererate bulbs and watch what happens...
If it was an Iris; you should be able to see the Iris's tubers that are 'saddled' just above the soil line. They are blondish in colour and resemble a gnarled parsnip or a less gnarled ginger root. Yucca will not have those tubers, but thick,slightly darker and slightly smoother roots growing downward..
Not an iris of any kind. When iris rhizomes spread, they form a circle and the center will be 'nekkid'. This is a Yucca (Spanish Sword, etc.) and can be divided to plant elsewhere. If planted along the back of your garage (hedge-like) it can be a lovely backdrop for other plants and flowers. The spiked foliage can be a nice place to showcase other colors and styles of plants and flowers. Use it to your advantage!
I don't know the real name of the plant at this time but this has peaked my curiosity to find out. Around our area here in northeast point of TN, it is called "The Devil's Shoestring". I think this name comes from the string-like tendrils that are among the leaf parts of the plant and the fact that it thrives in hot summer, never goes away and is for the most part, untouchable. The flower spike is pretty when it is blooming but other wise is just a curiosity that never dies and puts out a
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nice cluster of flowers on the stalk once a year in summer.
It's called a weeping Yucca...very hot and cold hardy...I love them cuz they're not stiff and pointy, they weep gracefully...when it's a little older it will form a 'stalk'...you can trim the bottom branches and you will see the stalk...I trimmed mine up and it's just lovely....good luck!
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