Yucca Rostrata (Beaked Yucca) care and cultivation UK

[@dannyhampshire9077]

Your doing a wonderful job in your garden and on your video helping out the likes of me in my garden project

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks Danny, I'm not expert but I'm happy sharing my experiences. Best wishes. Mark

[@brocktoon8]

Glorious!

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Isn't it!? Thank you again for keeping watching my content and communicating. Mark

[@wernermcgann3792]

Brilliant thank you 😊

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Thanks Werner. Glad you liked it. Mark

[@johnskill3647]

Hello Mark, Brilliant video as usual. Thank you. I have 2 of these beautiful specimens. Please can you send me the link for the thorn proof gloves ?

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi John, apologies for the delay, here is the link which I have also added below the video as promised. Thanks for the nudge. Mark amzn.to/3XvhMzF

[@johnskill3647]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK Very much appreciated Mark. Cheers

[@greatnorthernexotic]

Fantastic specimen yucca rostrata! What are your plans for the top dressing of the arid bed?

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi again. I'm thinking weed membrane covered in gravel. But not decided on the membrane yet. Maybe just gravel. What would be your approach?

[@greatnorthernexotic]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK I didn't use weed membrane for a couple of reasons: firstly any weeds that self-seed in the 30cm of gravel are easy to pull out because there's nothing solid for them to attach their roots to, but also I want to scatter some drought tolerant annuals through the bed, such as California poppies. As for the gravel, I used a locally sourced 10mm gravel called Yorkshire cream and mixed in some similarly coloured rocks and boulders I already had. To make a more naturalistic look, I think using lots of rocks is essentially, and maybe mixing in different grades of gravel (including coarse sand) - but of course it's entirely down to taste. 😃

[@Tony.795]

@@greatnorthernexotic I do think that a deep layer of gravel of various sizes down to sand is more convincing for a desert landscape. Over time native xeric plants including small succulents will start to grow and that looks way better than a sterile patch of uniform gravel in my opinion. That also has ecological value because that type of environment is utilized by several insect species.

[@nicholasryan5401]

Beautiful plant, its the bees knees.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Isn't it? I love the spikeyness

[@JennyMac3953]

Hi Mark where in the garden is the best place to plant a yucca Rostra and is it to late in the year to plant one

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi Jennifer. You can probably just get away with planting now. They are supposed to be extremely robust. So most places. But not to shady and ideally not too exposed. Likes sun and good drainage. Mark

[@JennyMac3953]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK thanks mark I appreciate your advice ,love your videos btw

[@florinflorin249]

Hi, nice Rostrata ! I plan to add one to my garden as well, did not know about them until I saw your video. Is it really needed to plant that way , with that mound? How about the Trachycarpus, doesn't it also need well drained soil? Why did you use the donut shape there? Does it need more water than the Yucca? I also have a Trachicarpus planted, but smaller, and I put some gravel and sand in the hold for drainage.. Any advice appreciated thanks. All the best !

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi. It's a good observation about the trachycarpus doughnut. To explain. I did that primarily because of the damage I did to the roots in moving them so I wanted to support them whilst they get re-established. I think your gravel approach is ideal too. Mark

[@dwp2659]

curious as to the annual temp range in your area.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi. Not 100% sure but probably low twenties in summer and freezing in winter time. On average. Where are you?

[@dwp2659]

@@MarksHouseandGardenUK rochester new york in the usa. up on the shoreline of lake ontario. since we are on the lake we pick up a zone and are in the 6b zone. however i do have a number of zone 7 plants that are thriving. would love to put in a yucca rostrata.

[@propulsar]

That looks like an expensive plant and am very curions how much it cost. I planted a Yucca Rostrata several years ago but it was a much younger plant than the one you have just planted. I paid 40 Euros for it. Even after, I think, 4 years I have still not seen the truck appear. but the original leaves are now being sucked under the increasingly spherical head. Soon, in the next year or two I will have to start cutting the dead leaves off to reveal the trunck. I'm hoping you will at some point be showing how that is done.

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Hi there. It wasn't cheap, I bought a few at the same time. As I explained in the video when they were delivered, money I make from KZbin currently goes back in to the garden, I believe it may have been £175.00. best wishes. Mark

[@MarksHouseandGardenUK]

Here's the delivery video ..kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5LWmWSoi7aNfa8

[@propulsar]

Thanks Mark. That’s a good price. Less than I expected. I planted mine on a piece of ground that was very dry. Where other plants had failed. A local supermarket had planted a group of Yucca Rostratas on a stoney piece of ground facing south and surrounded on three sides with plate glass windows. A very hot position as we are in Charente Maritime. Those Yuccas are thriving and are getting on for two metres high now. One day my plant will get there.