Yucca Tromping Around Yugoslavia (former) has shown exceptional vigor

has shown exceptional vigor

Agave 'Mateo' has survived for us outdoors since 2010

we discovered it had undergone a previously undisclosed sex change operation and was not a male

is the earliest flowering selection that we've seen

This phenomenally heat- and drought-tolerant selection is for the full-sun gardener who kills everything else

Yucca Tromping Around Yugoslavia (former) has shown exceptional vigorI fell in love with this unusual yucca when I first saw it in the amazing Trompenburg Arboretum in the Netherlands. Unfortunately, their plant records were no help in figuring out its origin, but after returning home with a cutting (legally) and growing it since 2004, we're confident that it's either a giant leaf form of our naturally occurring Southeastern US hybrid, Yucca x gloriosa (filamentosa x aloifolia) or more likely a hybrid with that and the