Yucca Palms Prune and Trim a Yucca to look like an exotic palm tree
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Date: 2021-05-05

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Yucca Recurvifolia - This evergreen shrub, that we call a Yucca Palm, has a strong architectural quality uncommon in Northwest gardens. The sharp-tipped, sword-shaped leaves stand out in a spiky sphere and gradually form a trunk that can reach 4 to 7 feet tall within a few years.  The long slender foliage, blue-green in color, often gracefully bends or slightly droops from the tips, and forms a stately specimen as it matures. Growing in full sun, once mature, tall flower spikes tower high above the foliage and carry dozens of pendulous, lantern-shaped creamy white flowers in mid to late summer. Our yucca is extremely easy to grow and adapts to most soils so long as there is good drainage. 

Culture Notes
Yuccas adapt well to most garden soils. This plant prefers a well-drained or sandy soil but is tolerant of clay and gravel and is very drought tolerant once established. The best growth and flowering occur in full sun. Although it will tolerate light or open shade, it is less likely to flower. Once established, yearly removal of the oldest, dead or damaged leaves in the fall or winter is recommended. Native to the southeastern United States.

Size & Growth
The single unbranched truck of this evergreen perennial plant shrub can grow somewhere between 6′ – 10′ feet tall. The trunk might start branching lightly with age. This plant can spread by offsets in larger groups. Its leaves can grow about 2′ – 3′ feet high and about 2″ inches in width. They tend to bend downwards sharply. The tips of the leaves are spined, but they are not harmful if you get pinched, but they bend at a touch. If you lean up against them, they can puncture your skin and even your eye, so be careful. You can actually trim the points off with a scissors but the tips will grow back in a few months.

Flowering and Fragrance
During early summer or late spring, during maturity, huge flower spikes produce dozens of creamy white pendulous, lantern-shaped flowers.
The flowers spikes are somewhere between 2′ – 5′ feet tall.
Yucca plant flowers are fragrant in the evening and attractive to the yucca moth.
Light & Temperature
Cured leaf Yucca grows best in full sun but will tolerate partial shade.

Lower light levels can result in fewer flowers and spindly growth.
It is a rather hardy plant and with handle temperatures of −4° degrees Fahrenheit (−20° C) without leaf damage. It can withstand occasional freezing temperatures and light snow and recommended for USDA Hardiness Zone 7 – 9

Watering and Feeding
This plant is drought tolerant because of their thick waxy leaves doesn’t have strict water requirements once established.
However, if planted for landscaping, recurvifolia plants will always look more attractive when watered regularly, especially during spring through late summer.
Only water an inch every week.

This plant is not very picky about soil conditions but prefers sandy well-drained soil.
It’s tolerant of clay and once established is drought tolerant.
Whether it is clay or sand, if the soil is well drained the pendulous Yucca will happily grow.
Grooming and Maintenance
This plant doesn’t require much maintenance or grooming. Cut leaves back to the stem as close as possible with a trimming shears. Cut them back about three times a year.

Here are some things to keep in mind:
It is not usually necessary to fertilize this plant.
It is best to water the plant if there is a longer duration of hot weather.

Plant Yucca Recurvifolia in early spring or summer. Water once weekly to ensure a strong root system is established.

Once plants become established, watering regularly is not necessary.
They are susceptible the small spiders and bugs which can make your plant week. I recommend using a spray 2x year for bugs that you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes’s such as Spectracide Malathion.