“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
Just yesterday I said to Pame Kingfisher that yucca plants in Kentucky rarely flower. As I was mowing mom and dad’s yard a few hours later I noticed their yucca plant had a flower stalk that wasn’t there last week. It’s about to bloom. I had to laugh. Clearly, I don’t know much about yucca plants. A little research reveals there are southwestern and southeastern varieties. This is a southeastern variety but I don’t know exactly its name, Beargrass maybe. When I was a kid growing up at Malone (Eastern Kentucky) we had what I think was a Spanish Bayonet yucca. It was very, very healthy and seemed to flower every year. I haven’t seen one in Kentucky as vigorous since. This yucca has been in Chainsaw Charlie’s yard for god knows how long. If it ever flowered I didn’t smell its fragrance or see it through the fence. That doesn’t mean it didn’t. It just means I wasn’t aware of it. It’s also possible that it’s finally able to bloom because we cleared all the crap from around it. I can’t wait to see how beautiful it will be when it fills out. I’ll be happy to be wrong.
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