Ivory Tower Yucca

The Ivory Tower Yucca is a bold architectural garden plant with long, sword-like leaves of blue-green in rosettes. In late summer older plants send up towering stems 6 feet tall topped with large, creamy-white, bell-shaped flowers. A plant in bloom is gorgeous, and the foliage is also striking, with the 3-foot long leaves making a striking contrast to most other garden plants. This very hardy native American plant is perfect for the hottest and driest parts of your garden, and it looks just as good in formal settings, modern minimalist styles, xeric gardens, and wild gardens too.

• Has sword-like blue-green leaves in dense rosettes
• Grows well in poor soils and exposed locations
• Resists both winter cold and summer heat-waves
• Never needs watering even in severe drought

Neither intense cold nor heat bother the Ivory Tower Yucca. It thrives in the hottest and driest parts of the country, or of your garden, yet it is hardy all through zone 4, and any leaves damaged in winter are quickly replaced in spring. Grow it in full sun, although it will tolerate a little shade too. It grows in all kinds of soils – acid, alkaline, sandy, clay, gravel – just as long as they are not wet. Pests and diseases don’t bother it, deer leave it alone, and it tolerates salt spray easily too. It needs virtually no care or attention, and it thrives in the most difficult places.