A few years ago I dug up a yucca plant start, from Jim & Elaine's yard. It was early spring and the one inch root was not easy to chop loose from its mother plant. When the pointy guy stayed more green than brown in its new home, there was hope. The next year it was still warming up to my yard producing nothing. Last year as the blooms grew the aphids claimed it as their Chuckarama buffet, leaving the flowers atrophied and ugly.
Fast forward to 2010 my plant has only one cane, but it is very 'fat' and healthy. To top it off it's bug free. Maybe in 2011 it will have a mate or even a whole family. If you look, all over town you can see multiple canes shooting out of the spikey plants, like popsicle sticks from an afternoon treat.
One might say it is the year of the yucca.
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