Yucca Facts

I give you...four facts about yucca!

(1) Yucca us frequently used in parking lots where intense heat and light prohibits many other plants from growing. So look for yucca on your next excursion to Big Lots!

(2) The sword-shaped, pointed tip of the long rigid leaves can be very sharp. By being planted under windows, yucca has been classically used in the South as a means of discouraging thieves and trespassers in general. If you tangle with it, yucca will ruin your life and destroy your prized possessions.

(3) A popular accent plant, Yucca is best suited to hot, dry environs, such as Hell. Or Georgia in the summer.

(4) Its candelabra of blossoms is showy but delicate, a shimmer of plush hulls that undulates in the breeze.