Garden Plants
Yuccas
Plants in the Center's garden include a variety of yuccas. Featured are Yucca rostrata (Beaked Yucca); Yucca whipplei (Our Lord's Candle); and our featured plant, Yucca pallida (Pale Leaf Yucca). Often overlooked, this yucca provides a striking stemless rosette which features flexible and neatly arranged powder blue leaves that measure 1 inch wide by 1 foot long. The leaves often arch and twist gracefully displaying a light yellow to white striating along the leaf margin. While the leaf tip is sharp, the leaves are flexible and not rigid, making Yucca pallida one of the safer yuccas in a public garden. In late spring and summer, a three to seven foot-tall flower stalk appears covered with white bell-shaped flowers.
Dillon Diers
Associate ASLA, Senior Assistant, the Office of James Burnett
