Beschorneria Yuccoides

[dave2166]

i did however have 2 bankers in the greenhouse,

That was a BONUS then

BOOM BOOM......

[Dave Brown]

That is a bit of a tall order then for outside planting. Drainage we can do something about but keeping the rain and snow off for a whole season.... not so easy. From what others have said they are fast growers in the summer so hopefully will grow out the damage quite quickly.

As I said earlier I think I planted mine in the wrong place given the size they grow, I'll see if I can find a place more suitable for it to spread.

[redsquirrel]

has anyone a sure way of telling these apart from furcraea?
i was feeling the leaves at cgf,the beschorneria seemed to have smoother softer feel to it without the 'roughness' to the edges?
i bought a furcraea there and had it suggested may be a beschorneria.

[metalhammer]

When they flower.I got caught years ago at Burncoose Nurseries,bought a Beshorneria yuccoides & when it flowered,it was a Furcraea.




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[metalhammer]

Up until this winter mine have regularly taken -8c during winter & last winter took -11c,with no damage other than a bit of tip burn.



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[JoelR]

Curious to know how many of these survived beyond Dec 10. Got my eye on a big one priced at £40 but not really sure if it's hardy enough.

[Arlon Tishmarsh]

Curious to know how many of these survived beyond Dec 10. Got my eye on a big one priced at £40 but not really sure if it's hardy enough.

Got quite a few here Joel and they've done just fine. One that did get damaged in "that horrible winter" has now grown back as a multi head.
This winter's been a doddle to -6.7 deg

[GaryW]

Dead as a dodo after 2010/11 after 10 years, 3 or 4 flowerings and many offsets being produced

[Nigel Fear]

I have a Beschorneria septentrionalis that's pushing out a flower stem at the moment, I only noticed about 3 weeks back when it was a couple of inches long, it seems to be going at a fair old rate of knots now, at around 2ft.

I'll probably hoick it out after that, rather than watch it die back, and prop up what ever pups might emerge from it, I hadn't expected it to flower so soon, I don't know if I ought to be pleased or not that it's flowering.

[Springy]

I have a Beschorneria septentrionalis that's pushing out a flower stem at the moment, I only noticed about 3 weeks back when it was a couple of inches long, it seems to be going at a fair old rate of knots now, at around 2ft.

I'll probably hoick it out after that, rather than watch it die back, and prop up what ever pups might emerge from it, I hadn't expected it to flower so soon, I don't know if I ought to be pleased or not that it's flowering.

My septentrionalis is coming into flower too. It has got minimal winter damage after last winter and was the same in the two bad winters before but my yuccoides was killed back to the roots again this year as it was the two winters before that!
So septentrionalis is much hardier for me and has survived a dip of -12c still in leaf!!

[JoelR]

I have a Beschorneria septentrionalis that's pushing out a flower stem at the moment, I only noticed about 3 weeks back when it was a couple of inches long, it seems to be going at a fair old rate of knots now, at around 2ft.

I'll probably hoick it out after that, rather than watch it die back, and prop up what ever pups might emerge from it, I hadn't expected it to flower so soon, I don't know if I ought to be pleased or not that it's flowering.

My septentrionalis is coming into flower too. It has got minimal winter damage after last winter and was the same in the two bad winters before but my yuccoides was killed back to the roots again this year as it was the two winters before that!
So septentrionalis is much hardier for me and has survived a dip of -12c still in leaf!!

That confirms what I was reading about B. septentrionalis earlier in the Gary & Mary Irish Agave/Yuccas book. They're supposed to be polycarpic (not dead after flowering) Nigel so don't give up on it.

[GaryW]

The flowering rosette dies after flowering, but offsets are produced much like most Agave and Musa.

[DiCasS]

Same as everyone else really, septentrionalis came through that horrid winter, battered but alive, whereas the yuccoides got crushed, never to be seen again. I do want a yuccoides again, I love the foliage on this one, and am waiting to see if they have them at our local sheds this year.


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[Andy Martin]

All of my Beschornerias survived last Winter. Admittedly two had a roof cover from Rain/Snow. I have Septentrionalis in the ground unprotected, a hybrid Septentrionalis/Yuccoides and a Yuccoides Quicksilver multi-trunked also. I have found that once you develop "woody" stems they resprout new shoots from the wood when all the foliage is shrivelled up. Heres a recent picture of my Yuccoides Quicksilver now full recovered after being defoliated in the December '10 freeze despite being under a Corolux cover.

The hybrid was totally unfased by the two week cold spell I had but being relatively dry also helped

I chickened out with Tubiflora and repotted it to get more size but this species didn't last long in the '10 freeze.

[derrick]

Ive had this one for 2years seems hardy