Xanthosoma Aurea lime Zinger for Alpinia zerumbet variegata (variegated shell ginger). Please email me if u r interested

Hello, I'm not sure if it is appropriate to request an in-person trade, but, I would much prefer that. So, if you are in the Los Angeles/Hollywood area, here is what I am looking for: I am looking for a variegated agave attenuata offset, as well as offsets of a variegated agave americana and an agave americana medio-picta. Also, any brugmansia seedlings, since I can't seem to get any of my seeds to germinate. What I have to trade: I have seedlings for jacarada, Phoenix bird of paradise (caesalpinia pulcherrima), passionflower (what kind, i am not sure...), and datura wrightii. Thanks!

I will add my two cents after a four year battle with this demon plant. There were many (plant) casualties along they way as I lost quiet a few as well as having to digup and relocate to lovely Japanese maples. First what didn’t work - Every chemical I could get my hand on trying to poison the damn thing. - Constant digging the roots out. - Weed screens - Yukka just grows right through the best of them. What finally worked. It wasn’t easy the house we bought four years ago had three big Yukkas in the main garden. I knew I was in trouble because when I would dig a foot down or more to the main roots they where huge and ripe, even after 6 months of no signs of growth the Yukka root looked like cutting a potato open white and juicy. We ended the battle this spring, we literally had to dig up our whole garden. Around 3 and 1/2 feet down to were we hit concrete which thankfully the previous owner had lined the bottom of the garden with. We had dig up every inch of dirt and then had it removed, cleaned the area with bleach for about a month and then brought in fresh dirt. There gone finally and we couldnt be happier. What I learned from the experience - never buy a house with them, unless you like the plant the amount of effort to remove is enough to land you in the looney bin.... Replace all the dirt, it could be the tiniest piece of Yukka you didn’t see that will regrow in a few months if you just dig out the root and then use the same dirt, remove every inch of dirt.

It's best to keep yuccas out of extra moist locations. I've seen people have then in moist soil that is also irrigated, and I guess they can tolerate that, but a Yucca such as Y. Rostrata would probably prefer a well-drained soil that is more sand than regular soil. If you have time, drive up north of Asbury Park, NJ, and I think the street is Ocean, but it may have another name. It's the street closest to the ocean where you pass all of hte fancy houses. If you are going north from Asbury, look to your right. There is one house in either Interlaken or Deal that has two large Yucca Rostrata plants (I think it's Y Rostrata, at least), and they are absolutely amazing. Proof that you can grow a "palm-looking" plant on the NJ shore with much success.