NOTE: I published this post on the 9th…yet another which WordPress dumped! I’m not very happy right now, as this has happened before, and I wish WP would get their “stuff” together!
A festive plant, certainly, yet there are a limited number being grown in the neighborhood.
*
The blossoms are especially prolific…
*
…and are able to withstand the heat quite well…
*
…plus, they are truly gorgeous!
*
Don’t you agree?
Another Thousand Words 
I hate yuccas – only because we have one in our hallway and Shirley bending over to pick something up caught her eye in it’s prickly end. Nothing serious but it is still a bit sore even after a few weeks of it happening. Apart from that it’s a nice looking plant and you have photographed it very well
Oh, poor Shirley! I feel so badly for her, because eyes are so precious, and any injury takes so long, it seems, to heal. Please let her know I’m thinking of her (and YOU!) many times throughout the day! And thanks so for the compliment, smacked–I do pretty well for an ‘old gal’ who just walks along and doesn’t take much time, but just ‘clicks away’!
Really fantastic.
Thanks so, Harbans…It gives me great joy to find beauty in the midst of this city!
That is the supreme joy in the midst of this city!
lovely as usual
I never knew what these were until last year, Jensine, and now I’m finding them in many gardens here. Seeing as this is not a ‘hot and dry’, desert-type climate, I’m so surprised they grow so well–and so huge! I’ve seen them as much as 4′ and more across, and way over 6′ high!
wow … I’d love to see that .. maybe one day
I don’t know if it would grow there, Jensine, but if you have a garden, it would be worthwhile to try, I think?
don’t have a garden, sadly, so maybe I will leave them be and just visit them one day
Glad you decided that, Jensine…I have no garden, but plenty of my neighbors do, and I get so much joy in seeing what they’ve planted–plus, my hands don’t get dirty, and my knees don’t get calluses!
What a beautiful plant, I love it. I really like the curly things on the first one too. How can WP do that? There are some serious problems with it at times.
WP just baffles me sometimes, Leanne! I post, the full post is shown, then next time I return, that post is gone–and it doesn’t seem to matter to them at all!
Guess I’ll just have to ‘roll with the punches’ until they stop trying to fix things that aren’t broken in the first place!