Hello, Last evening, when I wanted to pollinate Yuccaflowers in the garden, I did finally find the answer to the question: "What is to be found at end of the rainbow ?"





























































Have a nice day everyone

Benny

Hi Benny

nice Picture ! But you are very late with your Yuccaflowers !

LG Walter

Hello Walter,

We normally have some Yuccas in bloom at this time of the year (Yucca 'Elegantissima' and my #500 is usually late bloomers), but this year all plants are 3-4 weeks delayed because of the very-very cold summer. For a hobby enthusiast like me it's no problem, but for the Danish farmers it's big problems, the crops are not ready to be harvested, but according to EU regulations they should have the fields sown with the winter crops before August 15th. So now the farmers might be receiving a fine and they will probably not be receiving the usual "farmers aid per hectare", because they are not following the regulations made by the EU. The Danish ministry of agriculture are trying to get the EU to understand, that this is not just one late lazy farmer, but it's virtually almost all Danish farmers, which will be affected by this. Around here the farmers did start harvest some crops this past week, but if I look out of the window here next to me, I can see maybe 50 hectare with crops, and I can't see any harvested fields at all. Not even the very nice weather we have had the last 10 days with temperatures around 20C to 25C every day and sunshine every day from dusk to dawn, seems to have helped the farmers much.

The Yucca at the end of the rainbow is one of Tim Behan's creations Yucca filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana). I have only pollinated two flowers on this one yet, at the upper part of the flower stalk, I had hoped to pollinate last evening, but the rain stopped me, and it stopped me again this morning AAARG. Now I am keeping a sharp eye on the rain radar, so I can find a dry moment to pollinate some more flowers.

In the greenhouse this one is in bloom:

Yucca "Karlsruhensis type 2" x rostrata (pollen from Ruud W. in NL).

It's the first time it's in bloom. It has very long side branches which is loaded with flowers and flower buds.

So now there are only one yucca left which is not ready to bloom yet is Yucca constricta Texas, Llano, DJF1306, it has just started to unfold the side branches, so I don't think, that it will not bloom until 10 days or so, now that the temperature will drop 7-10 degrees C this evening and 2 weeks forward.

Well it looks dry outside, so I will convert my self to a "Tegeticula humanoides" and try to make some new hybrids

Take care

Benny

Thomas,

Yes, it's not so often there are twin rainbows, so even if my pollination evening were ruined by the rain, the evening was very nice, and we had a brilliant red-orange sunset also.

Take care

Benny

Hey Benny,

indeed a great moment! Simply amazing!

And Tim Behan's phantastic creation Yucca filamentosa 'Tennessee' X (reverschonii x thompsoniana) thereby awarded a really heavenly honor!

And an awesome capture too!

Thank you for your interesting remarks to this year's too cold summer in Denmark and the associated problems. This does not experienced in this country usually!

For the rest of the year, I wish you finally more pleasant weather! And I keep my fingers crossed that you still succeed in some interesting new hybrid creations!

Med venlig hilsen,

Jørgen