Yucca rostrata Lycoris Sweet fern is a renaissance

Sweet fern is a renaissance plant in the garden

Quite a people who write about it seem unable to distinguish between a garden thug and an invasive plant

The popularity of our 1995 introduction of a 1990 cross of Hosta 'Peter Pan' x Hosta 'Green Fountain' has skyrocketed

forms a patch (3' wide in 3 years in rich soil) of narrow tufts of evergreen grass-like foliage

Cannas grow continuously through the growing season

Yucca rostrata Lycoris Sweet fern is a renaissanceThis is truly one of the most elegant (and user friendly) deer resistant yuccas for the garden, and certainly one of the most hardy of the trunk forming species. The narrow, powder blue foliage radiates out from the head of the central stalk like one of those "Rostrata farian" hairdos. In 10 years, expect a 4' trunked specimen (eventually to 10'+) that will branch with age much faster in alkaline soils. The species name rostrata refers to the fruit,