I am looking for theses Yucca seeds: Color Guard Brilliant Edge Sapphire Skies Beaked Blue Garland's Gold If you have any of these, please let me know and let's trade! Thanks :-) Carol

I have seen tons of yucca rostratas here and some of them are definitely different varieties. I know of one not to far from my home that has leaflets that go out well over 3 feet and its a giant (almost 2 stories tall!). I cant remember where I saw it, but I am looking for it so I can take a pic. Rostratas are pretty good with rain. Lots of rostratas bloom around here also which means that they must be happy. Mine was in a container that never drained properly so it often was completely submerged in 3 inches of water. It lived like that for 3 years before dying from way too much water. They, of course, do best in well draining soil so if you live in a place with a lot of rain, make sure the soil never stays too wet by your Rostrata, especially in winter time. -Alex

I bought one called 'Sapphire Skies' three weeks ago, a 3 gallon Monrovia Plant. It is listed as hardy to zone 5. You are not being excessive in your 3ft hole filled with rock and sand. But I would suggest leaving some dirt, mixing in coarse sand with it and building it up into a well draining mound. If its really awful clay, get rid of it but if its decent soil, use it to build up the height. The drainage is often more important than the temperatures. That is how I planted mine. I got some bags of topsoil and a LOT of sand and its mounded up pretty high. Sort of adds to the look of it planted as well being raised up like that. I agree with nmgirl. Sounds like a sunburn. If so, those burns will scar the leaves permanently. I always bring my non winter hardy cactus type plants out as early as possible and set them in a protected spot with shade that gradually becomes sunny as the sun moves higher. That way they get the spring rains and harden up real nicely. These are tough hardy plants that thrive on neglect and they don't like being babied. Kindness is often a killer.

I guess I posted my list on the food list site. So here it is again. I will not bring them all so if your interested in something let me know what you have to swap. Nandina domestica Peperomia obtusifolia `Variegata' Peperomia Dioscorea bulbifera Heart leaf air potato Alocasia cuculata Chinese taro Alocasia 'hilo beauty' (Small) Alocasia macrorrhiza'Variegata' (Large Plant) Aristolochia fimbriata White Veined Hardy Dutchman's Pipe Phyllostachys nigra "Black Bamboo" (one small for special trade) Arundo donax 'Variegata' (Variegated giant reed) Liriope Green (Lots) Scadoxus Multiflorus (Haemanthus grandiflorum) Blood Lily White Calla lily Zephyranthes (zeff-er-RAN-theez) Fairy lily, Rain lily. Pink Yellow & White Duranta 'Sapphire showers' variegated Nandina domestica 'Firepower' Ceropegia woodii Sting of Hearts, Rosary Vine Kalanchoe Donkey Ears "Gastonis Bonnieri"-plant Kalanchoe -Bryophyllum daigremontianum Mother of Thousands Euphorbia Pencil cactus Agave americana agave, century plant `blue agave' and 'Variegated' Opuntia Prickly Pear Pedilanthus tithymaloides Variegated Devil's Backbone Night Blooming Cactus (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) Yucca Colocasia esculenta fallax Colocasia esculenta 'Violet Stem' Clematis 'Sweet Autumn' Clerodendron bungei Crinum asiaticum Crinum americanum - Spider Lily Crinum J.C. Harvey Crinum White Prince Crinum 'Ellen Bosanquet' Boston fern. Hoya carnosa -Wax Plant Plain Green Leaf Hoya Carnosa Variegata Lantana montevidensis (sellowiana)Purple Trailing Lantana Musa zebrina 'rojo' Musa Yellow Chinese Musa Blue Java Beaucarnea recurvata Pony Tail Palm Cycas revolute Sago Palm Cyperus alternifolius Umbrella Palm Philodendron Domesticum Variegatum Philodendron Monstera Oblique Leichtlinii `Swiss Cheese' Philodendron Scandens Heart Leaf Philodendron Philodendron Scandens Medio Pictum - Varigated philo Philodendron Nutans Velvet Leaf Ruellia brittoniana Mexican petunias `Mexican Bluebell', White Katie,'Pink Katie', 'Baby Katie' Ruellia squarrosa Creeping ruellia 'Blue Shade' syngonium podophyllum V-Arrowhead Syngonium podophyllum 'White Butterfly' Live Oak seedlings Bignonia speciosa Violet Trumpet Vine CESTRUM NOCTURNUM Night Blooming Jasmine Ficus pumila Fig Ivy, Creeping Fig Jasminum polyanthum Pink Jasmine, Lonicera japonica Japanese , Purpleleaf Honeysuckle Lonicera sempervirens (Coral Honeysuckle) Passiflora Red Stigmaphyllon littorale ORCHID (BUTTERFLY VINE) Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Angyo' Tri Color Jasmine WATER PLANTS Copperleaf- Alternanthera reineckii Hardy Frog Bit- Limbonium spongeanum Parrots Feather- Myriopyllum aquatica White Snowflake- Nymphoides cristata Horsetail Rush- Equisetum hyemale Papyrus Dwarf - Cyperus haspan Pickerel Rush Blue large- Pontederia cordata var Sensitive plant-Aeschynomene fluitan Thalia- Thalia dealbata Umbrella Palm- Cyperus alternifolius Variegated Dwarf Bamboo- Dulichium arundinaceum Var. Water Celery Variegated - Oenanthe javanica 'Flamingo' Widows tears spiderwort Tami