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What Plant is This Please

BrianCowperNZBrianCowperNZ Posts: 2
in Problem solving
Four of these plants appeared on the bank of our garden behind our house.  We didn't plant them and we haven't seen any around the District.  We live in rural Hawkes Bay NZ and the garden is visited by many birds including Wood Pigeons and the Native Tui.  They have suddenly sprouted a huge flower stalk.  We would be extremely grateful to your help in identifying it.  Kind regards Brian

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  • cmarkrcmarkr Posts: 142
    Google lens suggests Breschornia Yuccoides.

    So many interesting plants seem to originate from NZ
  • BrianCowperNZBrianCowperNZ Posts: 2
    Thank you so much that is it all right.  What a surprise, I am not sure we would have included them in our planting by choice but it looks like their here to stay.   Thanks again for your prompt response.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have one of these from a plant swap.  It produced the flower spike in its second summer with me and it grew to an impressive size.  The flowers are beautiful.

    I had mine in a pot and have now planted it out in a border.   The centre died off but there are several plantlets growing now so I hope to get a great display next year or maybe the year after.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I was going to say it looks like a Yukka of some kind. Lovely  :)
    The info seems to say that, like most yukkas,  it's not very hardy, but many of these plants can surprise us, and dry cold is always easier.  It's clearly happy in your garden down there @BrianCowperNZ :)
    It's obviously managing well for you in the new garden too @Obelixx. We'll need some pix   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I thought I'd taken some @Fairygirl but I can't find them.  Might have been an off day for filing them.   Mine survived a brief -8C in a well-drained bed with shelter from a cold north wind last winter.

    Here's what the RHS says about it tho my flowers were better than their photo!
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/27870/i-beschorneria-yuccoides-i/details 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I found this site too @Obelixx
    https://www.architecturalplants.com/product/beschorneria-yuccoides/


    They wouldn't like it here at all unfortunately - no yukka does. A shame, because I like that type of plant. It would need overwintering, and I don't have room in this house - I don't even have a porch, which would be really useful for all sorts of plants.   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have some huge house plants @Fairygirl so definitely no room for winter lodgers.   I have a yucca too which I planted on the other (north) side of the same bed which has a big albizzia julibrissin in the middle. 

    Last winter was colder and wetter and longer than normal for here and the yucca's head got clobbered but I left it and now there are shoots all down the previously bare stem so it's become a clumpy yucca.   I rather like it and it provides winter shelter for ladybirds so it's a good job it decided to grow.  Snails too but I feed those to the chooks.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    The Phormiums are a popular hiding place for snails here, so I don't want to give them even more free board and lodgings if I can help it  ;)
    I would definitely have a few more 'borderline' plants if I had room, especially as I now have the time to faff around with them. Cannas would be one. When I worked full time, the garden needed to be much more low maintenance. When I retired, I felt I was twiddling my thumbs a lot of the time  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    In 2010 with night temperatures here at -17 we lost most of the plant. We found a small amount left and for various reasons we had to move it. It's new home is against a wall with an old second glazing window over the top for some protection in the winter.
    It sends out fabulous flower spikes and often flowers twice a year.
    We now need to look at raising the protection.

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