Yucca 'Color Guard'

Yucca 'Color Guard'Yucca filamentosa, commonly called Adams needle, yucca and needle palm, is a virtually stemless broadleaf evergreen shrub. It features a basal rosette of rigid, sword shaped, spine tipped green leaves with long curly threads along the margins. Leaves form a foliage clump to 2 3 tall. In late spring, a flowering stalk rises from the center of each rosette, typically to 5 8 tall, but infrequently to 12 tall, bearing a long terminal panicles of nodding

Flower: Showy

Benefits from a 2-4” mulch which will help keep roots cool and moist in summer

‘Satomi’ is an upright

deciduous shrub that typically grows to 3-6’ tall and is noted for producing a mid to late summer bloom of sweetly fragrant white flowers which appear in narrow

A shorter variety that rarely needs staked

It is lovely even when it's not in bloom

some protection from full winter sun

Unlike most hawthorns

with a spread of 3 feet

Numerous flower buds form in each cluster

Flesh is very firm and finely textured with good quality and flavor

almost stalkless leaves feature oblong