Some progress in this hybrid. They are sown in 2011. So far proven fully hardy.




Will show pictures of some of the other plants, there is some variation.

Martin

Hej Martin,

these are really pretty yuccas, and it looks as if they are growing significantly less than flaccida! Good work, I'm looking forward to your photos of the differents forms.

Hilsen

Juergen aka Danish Jørgen

great hybrid........perhaps these will tolerate northern gardens better than Y. nana (I can't grow nana in my garden.......not sure why).

Tim, built a crevice garden, like those who grow more difficult alpine plants, then they are easy. But i also find my Mill Creek plants the hardiest. Can send you a piece of one if you like. The pollen donor to the hybrid in the picture created a lot of new rosettes after flowering so have spares.

Martin,
Great looking hybrid. Nice work.

Here is one in the ground, small leaves, green, less than 18 cm so far.


And another clones, this time with filaments! Note that all 3 plants are from the same seedpod:


And just to compare, Y neomexicana, same conditions, unprotected:

Interesting variation. Looks good with white margin and filaments.
Here is mine Y. neomexicana Cimarron County, Oklahoma (Mesa Garden 1997.81).

Hej Martin,

thanks for showing. I think this pretty yuccas have some potential. Great hybrid, great job, Martin!

Good luck and good growing

Jørgen

Hello Martin & Mario,

here is my "little" Y. neomexicana, over 20 years old. After the horror wintes of the last years she is colony forming. Until then these grew solitaire.
The large behind is is an equally old Yucca torreyi.



and the native Hybrid Yucca nana x baccata before the Y, nanas




greetings

Juergen aka Jørgen aka Jure aka "P2"

The hybrid with filaments is GREAT!

My winter cold does not damage Y nana.......nana and other angustissima/harrimaniae grow very slow and die in 2 to 3 years. I don't know why. Is it our low pH soils? Is it our warm summer nights? Is it our maritime climate with high humidity? I don't know????

Hi Tim,

I guess the problem is, above all, your much more muggy summer weather

bye Juergen / Jordi

Hi Jurgen,

Nice Yucca's. Did you make some kind winter protection for Y. torreyi? I have seedling (Mesa Garden 2001.6-Redford, TX) in ground for test and backup in pot.



Best regards,

Mario

Hi Mario,

beutifully Plants.
My Yucca torreyi is not protected in the winter, but this grows relatively dry and protected near the house wall. I had brought this Yucca at the beginning of the 90 home from the Netherlands, but only in recent years this specimen begins to grow stronger and forms a trunk. This Y. torreyi has not flowered yet.
Only after the first bloom, one can say whether this plant may have an increased winter hardness by some Y. baccata genes.
By the longer and warmer summer into your homeland should the Y. torreyi thrive less problematic for you than in Germany, I guess. As far as I know, a plant from these site Redford TX has survived completely intact with slight winter protection the first winter in Christians Garden in the Austrian Burgenland.

Good luck and Good growing

Juergen aka Jure