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Yucca garden - secrets of gardeners that you didn’t know about!

The unusually beautiful garden yucca is found in country and personal plots quite often, but many gardeners do not dare to acquire a flower in their dacha, citing a lack of growing experience. In fact, caring for the plant is not demanding, and it reproduces easily. You can’t do without nuances, but good advice, described in the article below, will allow you to find out why yucca does not bloom, how replanting and pruning occurs, as well as the basics of planting and care...

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Planting yucca in open ground

Yucca is an unpretentious plant, quite hardy, easily tolerates drought and heat. However, the flaw of the flower is excess moisture in the soil, which can lead to the development of rot on the roots and provoke the appearance of various diseases, in some cases the death of the entire plant.

To plant yucca, choose sunny places, away from vigorous trees and shrubs, which can not only create shade, but also take away nutrition, preventing them from fully developing and blooming. in full. You should not plant garden yucca in lowlands or places where water accumulates. An incorrectly chosen location also affects its external condition - the leaves fade, become less dense, the trunk stretches too upward, as a result of which the yucca looks untidy.

When is it better to plant yucca, autumn or spring? The most best time– spring, when the earth warms up and the threat of frost passes. Before planting outside, the flower can be grown at home in a pot or greenhouse, but then the plant must be hardened off before planting in the ground so that it does not die. Over the course of 7-10 days, the yucca is gradually taken outside, taming it to natural conditions and increasing the time spent outdoors.

Plant yucca in the fall, especially in middle lane Russia, in the Leningrad region, Moscow and the Moscow region, also in the Urals and Siberia are not recommended due to climatic conditions. Unpredictable weather may not allow plants to get stronger before winter, so it is better not to risk it and postpone replanting until spring.

flowering yucca garden - in the photo

Composition of soil for yucca according to by and large it can be anything, the flower takes root anywhere, but it will grow well in fertile soil with a large supply of nutrients. Dig a hole approximately twice the size of the yucca root system, add drainage to the bottom (if the soil is heavy and clayey). Add sand to the soil for greater looseness and breathability. Place the seedling in a vertical position, cover it with soil mixture without deepening the plant.

At the same time, make sure that the yucca does not stick out of the ground after planting; plant it flush with the ground surface. Watering yucca after planting in open ground is mandatory; pour a bucket or more water under the plant if necessary. The moisture should thoroughly saturate the soil to the very roots, so irrigate in small doses, gradually consuming the required volume of liquid.

Caring for garden yucca

To preserve the plant after planting in the ground, you need to monitor watering, do not overwater the flower, and irrigate as necessary during dry periods. After planting, the wilted leaves of the yucca should not be trimmed. This is due to the fact that two- and three-year-old yucca seedlings can produce a peduncle and begin to bloom. If you prune immediately after transplanting, you will not see any flowering. Typically, yucca begins to bloom from the third year of life, a thin long stem with beautiful snow-white flowers resembling bells.

yucca in winter - pictured Yucca overwinters without shelter - in the photo

It should be noted that if roses and other flowers susceptible to aphid invasion are grown nearby on the site, then the rose garden must also be sprayed. In summer cottages and garden plots, except folk remedies In the fight against insects on garden yucca, fungicidal and biological preparations are used - Biotlin, Fitoverm, Entobacterin, Intavir, Karate, etc.

It is advisable to loosen the soil under the flower, removing weeds and breaking up the earthen crust for better access of oxygen to the roots.

Transplanting young yucca at the age of two or three years to a new place is possible if the need arises. How to replant yucca? Water the plant so that when digging, the roots do not come off and, together with a lump of earth, come out under the bayonet of the shovel. Yucca can be replanted throughout the growing season, in spring, summer and even autumn (only in the southern regions and Kuban). Fertilizing the flower after transplantation is not carried out during the first 30 days, so as not to burn the roots.

Feeding yucca is carried out once a year. in early spring As a rule, mineral complexes are also used. It is advisable to loosen the soil under the flower, removing weeds and breaking up the earthen crust for better access of oxygen to the roots.

Yucca is relatively winter-hardy, so it sometimes winters without shelter even in the Moscow region. It is advisable to cover in winter using any available covering material (agrospan, spunbond, film, etc.) the root zone can be mulched with humus, peat, leaf litter (preferably oak, as it does not rot).

Yucca propagation

In most cases, yucca propagation is carried out by lateral shoots (layering), root division, and less often by seeds. Mature plant with good care, it can produce a significant number of daughter rosettes, which can be found under the bush near the base of growth. You need to take seedlings that have already developed root system so that rooting goes well and the plants take root in the new place.

Yucca reproduction - in the photo

To plant garden yucca by dividing the rhizomes, in the spring you need to prepare cuttings 7-10 cm long from the rhizomes. Before planting, it is better to sprinkle the petioles with crushed coal, leave for 4-5 hours to dry, then plant in nutrient soil to a depth of 10-12 cm, water. After about 18-21 days, the first shoots will begin to appear.

Yucca propagation by seeds is similar to propagation technology indoor flower of this type. To grow yucca from seeds, take only fresh seed, which is soaked in water until it swells at room temperature. Sowing is carried out in March or April in a nutritious soil mixture, deepening the seeds by 1.5-2 cm.

The container with crops is covered plastic film, glass and put in a warm place. After about 28-30 days, the first shoots will begin to appear. The film is removed, the pots with yucca are placed in the light, and a week later they are planted in separate pots. Yucca grown from seeds is transplanted into open ground after 12-16 months.

Yucca pruning for beauty and rejuvenation

Yucca pruning is carried out in order to rejuvenate the plant and obtain new growth. To awaken dormant lateral buds, in early spring, after the snow has melted, the main stem is cut off, stimulating the development of lateral buds, from which new rosettes will subsequently develop. If there is no need to grow new shoots, the plant has overwintered well; only bad and dry leaves are removed.

Yucca is very decorative when it grows in one stem. With proper care, the height of the peduncle exceeds 1.5 m, the number of beautiful large flowers can reach 250 pieces on one plant. Before subjecting the crop to shearing, think about whether it is necessary to resort to this procedure.

Typically, yucca is pruned after flowering, removing faded stems and bad foliage. To make the plant decorative, the leaves are not cut off completely, leaving a distance of 3-5 cm from the trunk, so the trimmed yucca will not look naked, the trunk will look like it has scales. Even in winter, yucca in the snow decorates the garden, becoming bright element V landscape design your site.

Yucca grows well not only at home, but also in open ground flower beds. Most often, garden false palm is grown in Ukraine, the Caucasus and the southern regions of our country, where soil and climatic conditions are most suitable for cultivating heat-loving exotics. Few flower growers know which varieties and species, due to their botanical characteristics, are suitable for outdoor cultivation, which is why choosing a variety for decorating a flower bed and planting under open air you need to approach it very carefully and responsibly.

Characteristics of garden yucca

A significant part of yucca species in natural conditions grows in America and Mexico. Some species are also found in southern Europe. Beautiful and unpretentious, tree-like and evergreen outdoor false palms come in several types, but they all have some general characteristics. A perennial ornamental plant, depending on its species characteristics, its appearance may resemble a tree or shrub.

The average height of the tree-like stem part can vary from several centimeters to several meters. The trunk can be either straight or have branches. The foliage is lanceolate-linear or xiphoid, collected at the end of the stem in a fairly dense bunch. The plant blooms in summer period. Large flowers, white in color, bell-shaped, collected in multi-flowered and rather long paniculate inflorescences. After flowering, the flower transforms into a round, dry or fleshy fruit, represented by a multi-seeded capsule with black seed material.

Species diversity

The Yucca genus includes about fifty species, but only a few of them are suitable for outdoor cultivation. The false palm is decorative, and at the flowering stage the garden crop acquires a very exotic appearance. appearance. For cultivation in open ground flower beds in temperate climatic conditions, blue-gray trees are also suitable, as they tolerate low temperatures very well. temperature regime to minus 18-20°C.

Perennial evergreen shrub Yucca filamentous has linear-lanceolate, flat, basal, growing from a rosette, blue-green foliage. The length of the leaves varies between 30-90 cm with a width of 2-4 cm. The apex of the leaves is sharply pointed, soft or hard. Threads hang along the edges of the foliage. The inflorescence is represented by a panicle consisting of creamy white or yellowish-white drooping flowers.

Yucca glauca

Yucca gray or "Candle of the Lord" is a perennial, evergreen, monoecious, stemless or small woody stem plant. The foliage is linear, bluish-green, 40-70 cm long, 0.8-1.2 cm wide, with sparse and thin, curled threads at the edges. The peduncle is racemose and tall. The inflorescence is branched, collected from bell-shaped, white, greenish-white or yellowish flowers.

A garden evergreen plant with an exotic appearance, it can easily withstand short drops in temperature down to minus 28-30 o C even without shelter protection. The root system is of a buried type, therefore it freezes out extremely rarely, but in regions with long and harsh winters, the ornamental crop needs dry, airy shelter. Improper protective measures are the main cause of damping off or death of tropical plants.

Yucca gray is one of the extremely life-loving plants, and is capable of growing well even on sandy soils and without additional irrigation measures. This garden plant It is quite aggressive in nature, so removing weeds when growing in flower beds is practically not required. The crop blooms at the age of four, and the flowers remain decorative for about a month. Yucca is best propagated by numerous lateral offspring, since seed material is almost never formed, and using store-bought seeds for sowing allows you to get the first flowering only after a few years.

Others are grown as container or pot plants placed outdoors in the summer. Garden varieties and varieties are perfect for landscaping the most arid and rocky-sandy garden areas.

Features of the development of garden yucca (video)

Rules and terms of landing

Landing garden yucca carried out in spring summer time , when daytime temperatures reach 20-22 o C. Only in this case does the plant form a good root system, and the ornamental crop goes into winter as prepared as possible. To grow an outdoor ornamental plant, you need to select an open area well lit by sunlight, represented by well-drained soil with an acidity of pH 7.5.

Dimensions of pre-prepared landing pit should be approximately twice the volume of the root system of the false palm. The planting area should be watered generously and mulched with hay or sawdust, which will reduce moisture evaporation rates. In order not to dig up heat-loving varieties on winter period, such varieties of yucca are planted in special planting containers.

Features of outdoor care

Caring for garden yucca is not at all difficult. Standard care for outdoor false palm trees includes watering and fertilizing, removing weeds, loosening, preventing diseases and pests, and protecting from frost.

Optimal growing conditions

Although the false palm belongs to the category tropical plants, exposure of the above-ground part to direct sunlight for a long time can sharply reduce the decorative qualities of the foliage. It is optimal to grow in well-lit and sun-warmed areas with some shading at midday.

Site selection and soil preparation

The decorative outdoor crop grows quite well on almost any type of soil, but in order to get the most attractive plant, it is recommended to plant it on sufficiently loose soils that do not retain water with a sufficient content of coarse sand. The site must be well drained. When planting, you can use black soil, as well as calcareous, sandy or clay-rocky soil. Among other things, experienced gardeners recommend pre-planting deep digging with the removal of all weeds and the application of complete complex fertilizers.

Watering and fertilizing

To improve the decorative qualities of an outdoor plant, it is important to provide the yucca with proper irrigation and fertilizing measures. Under natural conditions, the false palm easily tolerates dry periods, and an excess of moisture can cause irreparable damage to the root system of the plant.

Irrigation measures are necessary when the top layer of soil dries out completely. You need to spray the foliage of garden yucca in the morning or in the evening, after sunset. IN spring period, at the stage of active growth, the false palm tree needs to be fed with compost, liquid humus, mineral fertilizers for succulent plants. Top dressing can also be foliar.

Yucca: growing (video)

Reproduction and transplantation

Garden yucca can remain decorative for twenty years, but the plant needs timely replanting:

• if the false palm has grown and numerous shoots have appeared, but they need to be separated and planted, and garden culture transplant;
• the root system can be buried 60-70 cm, so to reduce the risk of damage to the roots you need to dig deep enough;
• replanting garden yucca can be done not only in spring, but also in the last ten days of summer;
• Flowering of the false palm after transplantation occurs in about a year.

Garden yucca reproduces by seeds and vegetatively. In our country, propagation is used by bush division and stem cuttings.

Use in garden decoration

When using garden yucca in landscape design, it is very important to take into account the botanical characteristics of the crop and follow the basic rules for combining false palms with others ornamental plants. Outdoor false palm is great for decorating rock gardens and border decoration garden paths, rocky gravel or sandy landscape areas.

Long-blooming yucca with bluish-green foliage and white leaf edges is exquisite decoration monochrome territories. The plant is suitable for single and group plantings. IN flower arrangements Yucca is best complemented with low-growing crops with bright or pastel blooms.

In the spring, in order to form a branching plant, it is recommended to cut off the apical part. Sections need to be processed garden varnish or crushed coal. R the result of such measures is the formation of stem shoots from awakening buds.

Why garden yucca does not bloom

Many experienced amateur flower growers know that room conditions Yucca almost never blooms. However, when creating comfortable growing conditions for outdoor ornamental culture, as close as possible to natural ones, the garden false palm blooms with very beautiful and fragrant bell-shaped panicle inflorescences.

The absence of flowering may indicate gross violations of cultivation technology or improper care of the plant. Among other things, the period of entry into the flowering phase may depend on the characteristics of the variety. Some species bloom already in the first year after planting, and perhaps flowering in the fourth or even fifth year of life. It should be remembered that a plant that is in good conditions, does not freeze in winter and does not suffer from waterlogging, blooms annually and very profusely.

Feeding yucca (video)

Growing garden yucca is a fascinating and not at all difficult activity. To get a long-lasting and highly decorative street culture, it is enough to carry out the proper care and do not forget about regular prevention of diseases and pests.

May 14 2018

Yucca - home care

Indoor plant with the name Yucca (Yucca) is very popular among gardeners. This one is evergreen beautiful flower It looks noble both in a city apartment and in a reputable office; there is no shame in giving it as a gift. An adult plant evokes admiring glances and a desire to have such a flower at home. If you have this exotic, or are thinking about purchasing it, our article will help you with advice on how best to care for this southern beauty. Let us immediately make a reservation that special knowledge and special requirements You don’t need to comfortably maintain and care for Yucca at home.

Yucca is indigenous to Central America and its arid regions. Visually she is similar to Palma, especially in natural environment habitat, when the leaves from the lower tiers dry out and fall off, the trunk becomes lignified and only a bunch of hard leaves remains on the top of the head. But this is not Palma.

There is some confusion regarding the classification of Yucca. At first, Yucca was classified as a member of the Liliaceae family, then to the Agave family, and now to the Asparagus family. Moreover, Yucca is now simultaneously on the list of representatives of both. In general, there is complete confusion. In addition to Palma, it is also often confused with other indoor flowers similar to Palma - Dracaena and Cordyline. An experienced florist will not be mistaken; he will immediately see the difference. But for beginners, this similarity is a little confusing.

Large specimen of Yucca

In nature, Yucca grows as a fully or partially leafy large shrub from two to eight meters in height. Indoor views grow up to a meter or two. Its tree-like stem is topped with green or bluish dense leaves sticking out in different sides or slightly drooping, pointed lanceolate or xiphoid shape. The length of such a leaf can reach up to a meter, although indoor specimens have leaves no more than 50 cm in length. There are stemless species of Yucca, the crown of which consists of one or several rosettes.

Yucca blooms amazingly beautifully, throwing out powerful vertical peduncles, abundantly strewn with buds. Large flowers, up to 8 cm long, resemble cup-shaped bells. Flowers most often white, but in nature there are creamy-greenish, yellowish or pinkish tones. The fruits are of no interest; they look like dry boxes. True, some species have juicy edible fruits. But unfortunately, not every gardener gets to see Yucca blooming at home. It grows quite quickly. From a small plant it can turn into a large bush or tree in a few years. What should be done to make the plant feel “at home” and at the same time maintain its compact decorative shape and dimensions acceptable for your room? Let's try to figure this out.

Types and varieties

There are over thirty different species of Yucca. They differ mainly in leaves and sizes. Some species have lanceolate leaves, while others have sword-shaped leaves. In addition, the edges of the leaf blades in some species are covered with long, stiff hairs, in others - with spines, and in others they are smooth. U indoor varieties Yucca leaves, in addition to the usual green leaves, have variegated leaves with bright white or yellow stripes. The most popular types: filamentous, ivory, gray, glorious and aloel.

At home, mainly two types are grown - ivory and aloe vera. Less often - filamentous and blue. We are sure that all types of this plant will decorate your home. Let's get to know them better.

Yucca elephantipes

It is named so because of the wide, massive base of the stem, which appears in Yucca in old age, which resembles the foot of an African elephant. This species of Yucca is very unpretentious to living conditions. It grows slowly. It is accustomed to the arid climate of a city apartment, is undemanding to the soil composition and does not take up much space in the room. In addition, you can plant other Yucca plants in a wide pot. indoor flowers, resistant to dry soil, for example, or. Against the background of Yucca, pots with, Spathiphyllum, and Benjamin ficus look great. or also decorate this floral arrangement.

In the south of Russia, in Crimea and the Caucasus, it grows in open ground and does not require shelter for the winter. In central Russia it is grown with shelter. Sometimes grown at home. This almost stemless plant grows as a shrub with beautiful bluish-green leaves, which have characteristic white or yellow stripes. The length of the leaves reaches 70 cm, width – up to 4 cm. The apex is pointed. The edges of the leaves are slightly drooping and contain numerous twisted white threads. The root system is well developed. The peduncle is very large, rising above the rosette to a height of up to one meter. Yucca blooms with drooping yellowish-white flowers up to 8 cm in length.

This view in indoor floriculture less common. It is more demanding in terms of content, it takes more space. It grows slowly, but over time, as it grows, the adult plant takes the shape of a ball with wide, leathery leaves. In the summer, Yucca Marginata blooms. On an inflorescence up to 45 cm long, many bell-shaped flowers of a creamy white color with a light purple tint are formed.

Yucca glauca

This type of Yucca has a greatly shortened stem. It does not grow higher than two meters in height. The bluish-green leaves are collected in dense rosettes about 90 cm wide. They are leathery, fibrous, up to 60 cm in length. At the edges they are white or gray with flaking fibers. In summer it forms paniculate inflorescence up to one meter in height, on which many small creamy-white flowers with a greenish or brown tint appear.

Caring for Yucca at home

The presented types of Yucca will fit perfectly into the interior of your apartment, will green it, and will not require much sacrifice and time from you. Just follow the basic rules for growing it, which we will now introduce you to.

Lighting and location of the pot

Light-loving Yuccas are best placed on flower stands near eastern or western window sills in an apartment. The place should be sunny, well lit throughout the day - the growth, development and appearance of your flower will depend on this. For this reason, you should not place the pot on the floor - there will not be enough light. It is necessary that the stand for it be flush with the window sill.

If you place a pot with a flower near the southern windows, then at midday you will have to protect the Yucca from direct rays of the sun with light curtains or blinds so that its leaves do not get sunburned.

If the window sills in your apartment are wide and the Yucca bushes are still young, then you can easily keep them on the windowsill. Just make sure that in the summer the sun does not burn them, and in the winter the leaves do not touch the cold glass.

IN winter time the plant will miss natural light at any window. You will have to take care of this in advance and purchase a fluorescent lamp or phytolamp to turn it on if necessary at a distance of 50–60 cm from the flower in order to artificially extend the daylight hours for Yucca to 12 hours a day.

Ventilation of the room in autumn-winter is also necessary for the flower, but do not forget that drafts are contraindicated for it.

Temperature

The temperature of the flower should be kept around 22–26 degrees. The usual temperature of city apartments is quite suitable for it, in which the flower develops well and looks healthy. In winter, it is advisable to lower the temperature to 16–20 degrees. During heating season Yucca begins to suffer from hot air. Its leaves begin to stretch out, thin out, and turgor weakens. Try to reduce the temperature in the room by ventilation or using split systems. Cover batteries using improvised means. Avoid sudden temperature changes.

Sometimes the owner opens the windows for ventilation in winter and forgets to take Yucca out next room. A short time is enough to destroy the plant and then for a long time regret it. Lower temperature limit in winter for indoor Yucca is 8 g. heat.

Humidity

Yucca does not require high ambient humidity. The humidity of our city apartments suits it - 40–50%. If the humidity is even lower and the temperature is high, for example, during the heating season, we recommend spraying the surrounding air and flower leaves with boiled or well-settled water room temperature. Just make sure that the wet leaves of the flower do not fall through the window panes. Sun rays– the plant may get burned and lose its decorative appearance.

To keep the leaves clean and improve their respiration during the hot season, the crown should be wiped with a damp cloth. A flower with wet leaves cannot be placed in the sun - it will get burned. Therefore, it is advisable to carry out this procedure in the evening so that the crown dries out overnight.

Watering

There is no single rule for watering Yucca. The amount and frequency of watering depend on the time of year, humidity indoors or outdoors (depending on where the flower is located), the size of the flower and its pot. For example, a young plant, just bought in a store and transplanted into a new pot, should be moistened a little almost every day, and an adult flower growing in a huge pot can be watered once every two to three weeks. Let's give general recommendations on this occasion.

In summer, watering should be plentiful, but not frequent. Wait until the top layer of soil 4–7 cm deep dries out, only then water again. Use only settled or boiled water room temperature. If the air temperature is about 20–22 degrees, water no more than once a week. In autumn-winter, watering is reduced. One watering every 10–14 days may be sufficient. The cooler the air in the room becomes, the less often you should water the flower. If the temperature remains at 18 degrees for a long time, one watering every 3 weeks is sufficient.

It has been noticed that it is enough to pour 1 liter of water into a 5 liter pot. Yucca tolerates dry soil more easily than overwatering. At any time of the year, do not allow excess water to stagnate in the pan, so as not to provoke rotting of the Yucca root system. If the leaves appear brown spots, and they began to curl up - this means that the roots began to rot due to waterlogging of the substrate. In addition, waterlogged soil often causes the plant to be attacked by all sorts of pests.

If the top layer of the substrate remains wet for several days after watering, the substrate may have become very hardened and does not allow water to pass to the roots inside the pot. In this case, you urgently need to loosen the soil with some available tool, or at least a fork.

Or perhaps the humidity level in your apartment has increased significantly. The soil began to dry more slowly. By maintaining the usual watering regime, you risk ruining the root system of the plant.

In hot weather, it is advisable to arrange a shower for Yucca. Wash its leaves well to remove dust, but make sure that water does not get on the substrate (cover the soil with polyethylene while bathing). After your shower, place the pot in a place where there are no drafts or direct sunlight. When the leaves are dry, you can take the flower to its place.

Fertilizers

Feeding Yucca is a necessary condition its successful cultivation from April to August. Foliar fertilizing with minerals has an advantage liquid formulations. Just dilute them by half large quantity m of water than indicated in the instructions for the drug. Spray the undersides of the leaves with the preparation - Yucca reacts well to this. Foliar feeding combined with regular watering of the flower. Buy liquid mineral fertilizers for blooming indoor flowers in special stores. During the period of active growth, feed Yucca once every 2 weeks. During illness, after transplantation and in autumn-winter, the flower is not fed.

If, when replanting the plant, you used special balanced soil for Palms or Dracaenas, then Yucca will have enough nutrition for a long time, and you will not have to feed it until the next season.

The soil

Yucca prefers light, loose, but quite nutritious substrates, in which leaf, turf soil, peat, humus and coarse sand are found in equal proportions. You can use ready-made soil mixtures. The composition is suitable for soil for Palms or Dracaenas with a neutral or slightly acidic environment. Or you can prepare the soil yourself. In any case, we recommend disinfecting the substrate before use in any way - calcining or freezing it to prevent the presence of infection and insects.

Transfer

After purchasing Yucca, do not immediately place it in the prepared place - give it a little time to acclimatize to new living conditions away from other flowers. Transplant the flower into a new pot larger than the transport container. Prepare a new substrate as well. Be sure to place a good layer of drainage on the bottom of the pot - expanded clay or crushed stone, at least 5 cm. Replant the flower using the transshipment method. Do not deepen the stem too much. Immersion to a depth greater than 3 cm is fraught with rotting of the trunk and death of the Yucca. After transplanting, water the plant and place it separately from the others for a couple of weeks to monitor it. Do not place the pot in the sun, in a draft, or in a room that is too hot. After the expiration date, a healthy-looking Yucca can be moved to its planned location.

A planned transplant of Yucca into another, larger pot is carried out for young specimens once a year, for more mature ones - once every two to four years, with partial replacement of the old soil with new one. There are no special restrictions on the time of transplantation, but it is still better to replant it in the spring. The reason for the transplant may be that the Yucca root system has grown throughout the pot. When removing a flower from an old one and placing it in a new pot, try not to damage the root system. Otherwise, the flower may get sick, and the adaptation process will take a long time, if not worse.

Try to ensure that the new substrate with which you fill the voids in the pot is of the same composition as the previous one, then the adaptation time will pass faster. Another condition: within a month, the transplanted flower cannot be fed, cut or cut! Let him adapt to the new living conditions in peace.

Large flowers are not very stable. Therefore, it is planted in a large pot. To prevent acidification of the soil, rippers are added to it - vermiculite, perlite or expanded clay chips in a ratio of 5 to 1.

If the plant is too large and you do not want it to grow further, use an old pot when replanting and cut off the root system of the flower clean tool by a quarter. Treat the cut areas with crushed charcoal, possibly charcoal, or activated charcoal. In an old, but cleaned and disinfected pot, pour 5 cm of new drainage and part of the new soil. The flower is installed and its roots are covered with substrate. There should be fresh soil on both the top and sides of the pot. After transplanting, do not water the Yucca for a couple of days, and then begin to carefully moisten the substrate in portions, waiting for its surface to dry.

It is problematic to replant an adult plant that has reached monumental size. Usually they are content with annually replacing the old soil from the top of the pot with new soil.

How to prune Yucca

Rest period

Yucca does not have a pronounced period of rest. She all year round needs good lighting, moderate temperature environment, in moderate watering. If you take it out into an unheated room for the winter, keep in mind that the temperature is below 8 degrees. heat is critical for her.

Conclusion

We introduced you to different types the evergreen beauty Yucca, as well as the rules for caring for her at home. According to Feng Shui, Yucca is a symbol of fresh air, purity and perfection. She does not tolerate clutter either in the house, or in the office, or in her head. It is placed near the workplace of a person who often leads business meeting and signs important papers. We are sure that you will like this flower.

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Yucca is an evergreen plant that is often confused with a palm tree. To grow yucca at home you do not need any special knowledge or special requirements. An adult plant always causes delight and admiration among guests at home.

• In these regions, it does not require shelter for the winter, but with shelter it can withstand the climate conditions of central Russia.
• Yucca filamentosa is a shrub whose leaves have characteristic white or yellow stripes.
• The flowers emit a pleasant aroma, the peduncle is very large, rising a meter from the rosette of leaves.
• This species can also be grown at home.

Also, in the presence of warm conditions, you can grow glorious and glaucous yucca:

• They are similar in appearance, have creamy white flowers and similar care and growing requirements.

Two types of yucca are grown indoors: ivory and aloelia:

• Elephant yucca is called false palm. It is a low shrub with long leaves and a sharp edge. The name comes from the trunk, which as it matures becomes strong and thick, like an elephant's leg. The plant came to us from arid regions where there are few pests, so growing it yourself does not cause problems.
• Yucca aloe vera is also grown at home; its leaves are leathery and hard. It is more difficult to care for; as it grows, this yucca grows into a spherical bush. The trunk is identical to the previous species, but the aloel representative is slightly lower.

Indoor yucca has one of several rosettes of leaves. The length of each is from 30 to 80 cm, the width is within 6 cm. It usually grows no more than 2 meters. The upper part of the plant develops too quickly, so the root system does not always have time to fully provide the plant with moisture and nutrients.

Houseplant yucca loves Fresh air, so in summer it can be taken out onto the balcony or outside, but not into the open sun.

The cost of a plant ranges from 10 to 400 USD. per copy, the plant is very valuable, so you can safely give it to dear people.

Indoor yucca is unpretentious plant, caring for the plant will not take much time. The plant is evergreen, although it has external similarities with palm trees, dracaenas and cordinillas, they are still completely different plants.

Since we are most often talking about elephant yucca or aloelia, it came to us from arid regions where there is little rainfall, but a large amount of sunlight. Therefore, yucca will develop in similar conditions at home, that is, with low watering and hot air.

Yucca will respond well if it is placed near southern windows, but if it receives direct sunlight, it is better to move the pot from this place.

If there is not enough light, the leaves of the “palm” will begin to stretch towards the sun and gradually become depleted.

Watering the plant:

• The main condition for successful growth Yucca is proper watering.
• It is important that the soil has time to dry out and does not remain wet; the soil should not be flooded.
• If the tree is left for a long time without watering, it will be able to tolerate this normally, but if the plant is overwatered, this is fraught with problems.
• There is no single system for watering yucca. Much depends on the time of year, the microclimate of the region, the current weather, the humidity of the surrounding air, as well as the size of the plant and pot.
• In summer, yucca requires abundant watering; each subsequent watering is carried out when the top layer of soil has dried 7 cm. If the room temperature is kept at 17 to 20 degrees, then one watering per week is enough. A 5 liter pot requires 1 liter of water.
• In spring, autumn and winter, the amount and volume of watering is reduced. Otherwise, you may end up with rotting of the root system. You can tell by the brown spots on the leaves and their curling.
• A large plant with a large number of leaves quickly evaporates moisture, this also needs to be taken into account when watering. There is no need to spray the plant, even if the air is very dry. It is strictly forbidden to spray leaves if they are exposed to open sunlight, otherwise you may get burns.
• If in summer the plant does not need additional moisture, then in winter it is better to spray them periodically, especially if the room temperature is high.

Yucca responds well to fertilizers; fertilizing is applied two to three times a month during the period of active growth. Yucca is not fertilized until it has had time to adapt to new conditions or after transplantation, as well as during illness.

Yucca is planted in light soil with good drainage.

To prepare the mixture yourself, you will need deciduous soil, turf soil, peat, sand and humus, all in equal proportions. The main conditions for the active growth of yucca are proper watering and plenty of sunlight.

If the plant has grown too tall, then the top part can be safely cut off and divided into cuttings. On the part that remains, new leaves will soon appear from the lateral buds.

Reproduction is carried out by three methods:

1. By cuttings.
2. Part of the trunk.
3. Seeds.

Flower cuttings:

• The length of each cutting for further propagation must be at least 20 cm.
• To make the cut on the plant quickly tighten, it is lubricated with garden varnish or sprinkled with activated carbon.
• Rooting of the cuttings can be expected no earlier than after 1.5 months. For the process to occur successfully, you need to maintain the air temperature at 20 degrees and humidity within 80%.
• Before placing the cutting in the ground, its cut is dried; to do this, just wait 20 minutes.
• At this time, the greenhouse is prepared and a mixture of sand and turf soil is made. You can simply dip the cutting into a glass with boiled water. A tablet of activated carbon is placed in the water, which will kill harmful microorganisms.
• To prepare the soil, it is first sprayed to create the necessary moisture for the cuttings.
• As soon as the first roots appear, . If you delay, the cutting may rot.

You can also propagate yucca using part of the trunk if it has dormant buds.

Part of the trunk is cut off and placed horizontally in the substrate. Wet sand is used as soil. The trunk is pressed tightly to the ground and covered with glass or film.

Dormant buds will soon wake up and new shoots will form from them. After this, the trunk can be taken out of the sand and cut into the number of shoots. The sections are treated with activated carbon and dried for 20 minutes. Now each shoot is placed in separate pots.

Gardeners rarely use plant propagation by seeds, especially if we're talking about about house plants.

Yucca gives good seed germination, so if you have seeds, you can take a chance. To begin with, a greenhouse is made, the container is filled with turf soil mixed with sand. and covered with film or glass. Every day you need to remove the film for ventilation. From time to time the soil is sprayed to maintain moisture. The first shoots will appear in a month.

What does this mean:

• If the tips of the yucca leaves turn brown, but otherwise the plant behaves as before, then most likely the plant is not receiving enough moisture (either through watering or through the air). The problem can be solved simply: you need to increase the amount or volume of watering, or increase the air humidity, and start using spraying.
• If brown spots appear on the leaves, which feel dry and brittle to the touch, then we are talking about low frequency of watering. This means that the plant needs to be watered more often so that the earthen ball is constantly moist. But do not forget that the top layer of soil of 5-7 cm should have time to dry out.
• If the spots on the leaves are the opposite light color, then this is due to a large amount of sunlight. In this case, you need to move the plant to partial shade or make a barrier from the sun.
• If the leaves are not as elastic as before, and the ends begin to curl, then this may be due to the low air temperature in the room. You need to find a warmer place in the room: change the side to the south, move the pot closer to the radiator and further from the cold glass.
• If only the lower leaves are affected, and the upper ones continue to develop normally, then there is no need to worry at all. This process constantly accompanies yucca.

The shape of the tree is formed by falling lower leaves.

Yucca also has pests, this can be determined by the following signs: the leaves have acquired a gray tint, the appearance of specks on the leaves, which unite over time, cobwebs have appeared under the leaves, the leaves have become weak, thin, and turned pale.

The most common pests of indoor yucca:

• Gray rot.
• Spider mite.
• Mealybug.

Yucca is an expensive self-sufficient plant; it can be used to decorate a room or hall alone, without adding other plants.

More information can be found in the video.

The experience of growing yucca in Russia goes back more than a hundred years. But if at the end of the 19th century plants decorated the park ensembles of palaces, today planting and caring for yucca, in the photo, is carried out even in personal plots and in city squares.

The plant, which naturally occurs in the subtropical and tropical zones of the American continent, despite its exotic appearance, turned out to be not so capricious. Accustomed to the arid semi-desert climate with sharp temperature changes, yuccas were able to acclimatize even in the middle zone. True, bearing only minor frosts in the open ground, plants need good shelter for the winter. And in the southern regions of the country they are often grown without any restrictions. Two types are suitable for planting and caring for yucca in open ground. They are Yucca filamentosa, so named because of the long fibers that hang from the edges of the tough foliage, and Yucca gloriousa. The first type predominates in Russian plantings because it is more winter hardy.

A large evergreen plant is easily recognized by its pointed, lanceolate leaves that form a dense rosette. With a width of 3–6 cm, the length of one leaf blade can reach 50–70 cm. As they grow, the lower rows of leaves wither, and when they dry out, they droop, forming a kind of skirt around the trunk. If garden yucca is in good conditions, does not freeze or suffer from waterlogging, it blooms every year. The flower stalks, up to 1.5–2 meters thick, cannot be overlooked. And when from 80 to 150 white, yellowish or pink bells with a diameter of up to 6 cm open on them, the appearance of yucca amazes the imagination of any gardener.

How to plant yucca?

Yucca is unpretentious and hardy. It is not afraid of drought, heat and wind, but the plant’s main enemy is waterlogging and heavy soils, where there is a risk of moisture stagnation.

To simplify the care of garden yucca, in the photo, planting is carried out in a well-ventilated sunny place. When choosing a site for an exotic beauty, you should avoid lowlands and corners of the garden with dense shade. Long periods of partial shade leave a mark on appearance culture. The leaves lose their former density, the trunk stretches. As a result, the plant looks quite untidy even when receiving full care.

Yucca has no special requirements for soil composition. The main thing is that the roots receive enough air and water does not linger in the soil. Therefore, before planting yucca, in areas with dense black soil or clay, sand is added to the substrate to fill the hole. A drainage layer is needed at the bottom, and to provide nutrition, especially on poor soils, humus is added to the substrate.

Despite the unpretentiousness of the culture, it will not be possible to do without any care after planting yucca in open ground.

How to care for a garden yucca flower?

After planting, the plants need very moderate sanitary treatment, which consists of removing dead foliage and faded flower stalks, rare fertilizing and pruning.

Watering is carried out at the root, trying not to flood the core of the rosette, since water remaining here for a long time is the main reason for the rotting of the crown and the need for radical pruning of the yucca.

As a rule, garden yucca is rarely affected by pests or diseases and, with good shelter, winters well even in the conditions of the Moscow region. To ensure that the roots of the plant breathe more actively, and the moisture remaining under the dense rosette does not cause rotting of the lower leaves and roots, the space under the garden yucca is regularly loosened, simultaneously removing weeds and fallen leaf plates.

If the location for the crop is initially chosen incorrectly, the plant up to three years of age can be transferred to another, more suitable area.

How to replant yucca? Although the plant is an evergreen crop, its biological processes freeze during the winter, and the new growing season begins only in the spring. This time is used to transplant garden yucca, the care of which in such a situation is sometimes complicated by painful adaptation to a new place of residence. When moving a bush, it is important to try to preserve the entire root system of the plant, preventing it from drying out. To do this, when replanting, use any means to moderately moisten the roots of the dug out plants.

The transplanted specimens are not fed for about a month, and the remaining yuccas in the garden need to be fertilized in the spring and then in the summer, before flowering and after the inflorescences wither.

At 3–4 years old, yuccas bloom for the first time, and the racemose inflorescence remains decorative for about a month. Feeding with complex formulations with a predominance will help maintain the strength of the plant. Fertilizer application is stopped a month before the onset of autumn coolness. This will allow the yucca to prepare for winter and successfully survive frosts.

Shelter for garden yucca for the winter

Plants tolerate sudden snow that falls in autumn or spring without loss, the main thing is that it melts within a couple of days. But stable cold and snowless winters are deadly for garden yucca.

First of all, the growth point in the core of the rosette suffers from frost, and then the vegetative root system. A frame shelter, which is a spacious box the height of an adult plant, helps to protect the crop.

Before covering the foliage, the yuccas are collected up and tightly wrapped with strong twine. Then the top of the plant is covered with a box and generously sprinkled with spruce branches or fallen leaves. The entire structure is wrapped with covering material and secured with tape. Checking the stability of the structure. In this form, the plant will spend the winter without any problems, it will be especially comfortable under a layer of snow.

You can remove the frame and remove the foliage when stable positive temperatures arrive. If you are late in “releasing the captive,” there is a danger of mold and mildew appearing due to increased respiration and the beginning of the plant’s growing season inside the confined space.

How to propagate yucca?

Although, with proper care after planting, garden yucca, as in the photo, blooms, it will not be possible to wait for its seeds in the middle zone. How to propagate yucca grown in the garden? There are several ways to get young independent plants. Most often, daughter rosettes are used, which form at the base of an adult bush. It is better to take cuttings with an already developed root system. This will speed up acclimatization and enable plants to quickly develop in a new place.

Daughter rosettes are easily separated when transplanting garden yucca, and caring for them is no different from what other plants receive. At the same time, do not forget that the cutting areas are most susceptible to all kinds of infections and pest attacks. Therefore, they are dried a little and sprinkled with crushed coal or cinnamon powder.

During spring transplantation, several cuttings from 5 to 10 cm long can be cut from a healthy, strong root. They are treated with coal and planted in a greenhouse, lightly sprinkled with a damp sand-peat mixture. The formation of sprouts in this case occurs due to dormant buds.

Another way to not only rejuvenate a plant that has grown and lost its compactness, but also to propagate exotic guests is pruning. How to make yucca more fluffy and get high-quality planting material?

How to prune yucca?

It is best to prune the plant in the spring, when it is just freed from its winter shelter. Since yucca has only one growth point, by cutting the stem, the gardener stops it completely vertical development. And yet the life of the flower will not freeze, the buds sleeping on the stem will wake up and give rise to several new rosettes.

Pruning is an excellent way to rejuvenate a flower, obtain strong garden yucca seedlings, and also to save specimens affected by rot or frost.

Before cutting the yucca, water the plant a couple of days before the operation. The cut is made with a very sharp, clean knife so that:

• in its place there were no stem splits, damage or peeling of the bark;
• it fell 8 - 10 cm below the foliage growth line.

When the cut areas dry out a little, they, both on the stump and on the top, are treated with fungicide and charcoal powder.

IN The top left to the ground after trimming the yucca hemp can be covered with garden varnish, which will ensure a long reliable protection in a garden setting.

On an old plant, protected from the scorching sun, newer shoots will appear in 2–3 weeks. If the yucca is strong, 3 to 5 hatched buds are left on the stump. Small specimens will not be able to support the growth of more than two young tips.

The old top is not thrown away, but is used for planting garden yucca, the care of which is little different from the situation when daughter rosettes are transferred to the ground. True, before this the seedling needs to be rooted. It is best to do this in a greenhouse, making sure not to allow condensation to form and ensuring the moderate humidity of the sandy substrate.

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