Are you still looking for the 'Color Guard' yucca? My pups are two years old or older. I will also have jewelweed in the spring. I am interested in your Japanese Red Maple Atropurpureum Seedlings 1" tall, River Birch Seedlings, or Corkscrew Willow cuttings. plantbug

Check out the Yucca rostrata on the Plant Delights Nursery sight for a view of a mature plant of the straight species. I don't grow it yet but think its a really cool plant.

oh.. dont get me wrong.. whatever works.. WORKS ... i just got to hatin' yucca... green or var'd .... so i would NOT waste too much time WORRYING .... that was my point ... one thing i have found though.. in my z5 ... cut the whole top off the cone ... but for roses ... it minimizes wind.. and direct sun.. but avoids heat build up ... the real key.. to any perennial.. IMHO .. here in the great white north ... is summed up thusly: GET THEM DORMANT.. AND KEEP THEM DORMANT ... it the back and forth freeze/thaw.. that kills things.. either they heave out of the ground .. or .. in this case.. the black soil.. warms every winter day in the sun .. and the repeated freezing and thawing of tender stuff.. kills roots ... so once the ground is frozen.. and the plant is fully dormant.. either cone it.. or dump some mulch around it.. just to blanket the surrounding soil .... so that it STAYS DORMANT .... i found.. over the years.. that when i have full and complete snow cover.. of the soil.. my losses are much less.. than those mild winter.. where the soil keeps getting exposed ... and the heating/cooling issue becomes a problem .... so cone.. or whatever.. good luck ken

Hi glen3a, I had just again read your posting and wanted to mention that there's NO worry about plants getting too hot or cooking under the styrofoam rose cones! Here we often experience mild snowless sunny conditions in which badly dessicate evergreens! If not for the rose cones my Danica ceders would badly dry up and croak! Spring removal is indeed an important timing! I do so as soon as the ground has thawed and plants are then taking up water. Leaving on any longer and excess moisture can cause damage and rotting of foliage. I do not use burlap to wrap up any of my evergreens ... and again that has ALOT to do with my climate! What happens is so much heat can build up behind the burlap it can turn the plant to crispy crunch! Burlap CAN be used though, in a climate such as mine it MUST be kept up and off of the plant thus maintaining good air circulation. In snowy dreary winter climates tightly wrapping is often recommended. For larger evergreens I cut spruce limbs and prop these up and over all sides of the shrub in which are exposed to the sun! Anyways, hows the yucca doing? Terry