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Yucca has long won the hearts of owners of suburban areas, as well as landscape designers. This exotic plant with xiphoid leaves is unusually impressive. With this plant, the area looks original and festive. The topic of this article is: what is a yucca garden flower and how to care for it.
Growing rules
It is a tree-like perennial shrub. It has no trunk, the leaves form a dense rosette, from the center of which a large stem with flowers in the form of bells grows. Most often, 2 types are planted in the garden: gray and filamentous. This plant can also be grown at home, but most likely, yucca will not release flowers.
Garden flower yucca
If the plant was grown in a greenhouse, after purchasing it, you first need to harden it: take it out for a few hours outdoors. The residence time increases every day. After 2 weeks, it is planted in open ground. The landing site is chosen well-lit, slightly elevated. In the shade and partial shade, the bush loses its decorative appearance: the rosettes become thinner, the leaves turn pale.
Yucca, garden flower: care, planting
It is recommended to plant a plant in spring.
Garden yucca grows on chernozem, calcareous, sandy, clay-stone soils. The landing pit is being prepared in the fall. The following is a detailed planting process:
- A hole is dug with a size of 70 × 70 cm (for a 3-year-old plant), up to 50 cm deep.
- Drainage is laid at the bottom, for example, coarse gravel or sand.
- Part of the soil is poured, a plant is placed in the center of the hole, which is covered with the remaining earth.
- The soil is crushed, watered with warm water.
It is recommended to plant the plant in the spring, after warming the soil. At the time of landing at night, the air temperature should be at least 10 ° C.
When growing yucca at home, immediately after purchase, it is allowed to acclimatize indoors for 2 weeks. Then it is transplanted by transferring it into a pot, slightly larger than the previous one. Agave soil is purchased as a substrate in a flower shop.
How to care for a garden yucca flower
Yucca care consists in watering, loosening the soil, removing weeds, sanitary pruning. It is imperative to cut off the stems with faded buds, since the plant will spend energy on setting fruit to the detriment of its development.
Watered at the root. When watering from above, the water can remain in the outlet for a long time, which will lead to its rotting. After watering, the ground is loosened so that the roots breathe, the lower leaves do not rot.
Immediately after winter, yucca is fed with nitrogen in order for it to grow beautiful leaves. Then complex fertilizers are applied.
Its reproduction is done in several ways: by seeds, daughter layers, cuttings. The seed method is laborious and is mainly used in breeding work. Yucca is usually bred by cuttings at home. For garden yucca, a technique is used - separation and disembarkation of subsidiary sockets.
Diseases and pests
The plant is rarely affected by pests and diseases.
The plant is rarely affected by pests and diseases.These are mainly fungal diseases arising from improper care, most often waterlogging. The damaged parts of the plant must be removed and destroyed, the remaining parts must be sprayed with a fungicide solution.
Also, yucca can be chosen by pests: aphids, scale insects, mealybugs, spider mites. To combat them, any permitted insecticide and acaricide is used.
In landscape design, garden yucca is valued for its lanceolate gray-green leaves and beautiful long flowering. It can be planted both singly and in a group. But at the same time, we must remember that it grows in width, and even increases the children, therefore, a fairly large place in the garden is allocated to it.
