Waited 5 Years #$%&* Deer

[Nyboy]

I know members here hate them but a garden yucca in flower is awesome. Don't know about wild ones but garden send a flower stalk 4 to 5 feet cover in flowers. I paid $60 for one, every year I was disappointed when it did not flower. I was lossing hope when a friend told me it was all so called century plant because it only flowers once every 100 years ( not sure if true) Well this spring it was going to flower, today I found this sure it was deer

 

[Nyboy]

Photos not good flower stalk looks like cut with pruners

 

[thistlebloom]

Oooohhh! Those filthy deer! I know your pain. It's not even my plant and I'm angry, haha.


I don't think that's a century plant.
Century plants are impressively huge, with thick leaves and a very tall bloom stalk.

Internet image

 

[Nyboy]

Thistle that looks like a yucca will have to get photos of some flowering

 

[thistlebloom]

Thistle that looks like a yucca will have to get photos of some flowering

What you have is a yucca. That image is a century plant.
In a place dh and I rented in our early years there was a home across the road, built on a steep slope, so you could look down on their garden when you drove by - they had century plants lining their driveway. They were impressive! Huge leaves, that could swallow you whole it seemed, and the bloom stalks rose up level with the road above, so they were eye level. Kind of scary actually....

 

[thistlebloom]

I'm probably the member you mentioned that dislikes yucca. I've had far too much personal experience with them.Our property was loaded with the wild ones, and then there were the encounters with them out hiking and riding. Not my favorite by a long shot, but the blooms are definitely beautiful and fragrant.

 

[Nyboy]

Thanks thistle always learning here, yes yucca here no where near that large

 

[Nyboy]

How often did the neighbors century plants bloom?

 

[thistlebloom]

How often did the neighbors century plants bloom?

I don't know, we only lived there for two years, and that was nearly 40 years ago, so I'm a little fuzzy on the details.

 

[Collector]

Sorry you lost the bloom stalk NY, maybe next time put a welded wire cage around it. Fricken deer..