One day while chasing a football across my front yard, I ran smack dab into the middle of a five feet tall yucca plant. In my mind, planting a yucca bush in one’s yard is tantamount to placing a spear-tipped sculpture in a play pen: nothing good will come of it.I can think of no plant less useful to a teenaged, soft-bodied, wannabe wide receiver. A bottle of iodine, a box or two of cotton balls, and a couple dozen Band-Aids later, I used a machete to prune the yucca plant down to its obnoxious and pulpy stub of a trunk. And then I dug that up and threw it in a garbage can.
“What happened to my yucca plant?” asked Mom when I showed up for dinner. She took one look at my bandaged body. “Oh!”
Hi Tim – when my now 19 yr old son was 4 – he, too, walked into a Yucca – actually – kind of Fell into it – four stitches and much drama later – we leveled it, too…
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Good move on BOTH of our parts!
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In the 70s there was a grooming product called Yucca Dew Shampoo available here. I bought it more for the name than its hair-cleaning qualities.
Timothy from Canada
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One of the entertainment places in Branson, MO solved the problem by folding the pointy end in toward the middle of the yucca plant and stapling it to the area of the leaf close to the center of the plant. With the plant in bloom and the rounded leaves, it made for a most unusual looking yucca plant I had ever seen. Might do that with my own next year.
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