>> WELL, NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FROM PECKERWOOD GARDENS IN HEMPSTEAD TO YUCCA DO NURSERY WHICH
IS IN THE CENTRAL TEXAS TOWN OF GIDDINGS.
JOINING ME IS WADE ROITSCH.
WELCOME TO CENTRAL TEXAS GARDNER.
>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING US.
>> ONE OF OUR FAVORITE SEGMENTS, YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT IS WHEN WE HAVE SOMEBODY FROM YUCCA
DO ON THE PROGRAM.
FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW BIT, IT'S A MAIL ORDER PLACE THAT SPECIALIZES IN SOME EXCEPTIONALLY
RARE AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS.
TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU OFFER.
>> YES, WE'RE A MAIL ORDER NURSERY, WE SPECIALIZE IN SUCCULENTS AND BULBOUS PLANTS, WELL ADAPTED
PLANTS, TRY TO FIND THEM FOR OUR REGION.
WE COLLECT PLANTS FROM DIFFERENT COLLECTORS AROUND THE WORLD AND TRAVEL TO OTHER PLACES
AND COLLECT SEED AND DEVELOP THINGS AND OFFER INTERESTING AND UNUSUAL THINGS ON OUR WEBSITE.
AT YUCCADO.COM.
>> I LOT A LOT OF PEOPLE CONSIDER YUCCA DO A GO TO PLACE FOR SOMETHING NEW AND UNUSUAL.
I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF IT AS SUCH.
FOR SOMEBODY WHO LOVES AGAVES LIKE I DO AND ALMOST ANY OF THE SUCCULENTS, REALLY, OR WOODY
LILIES LIKE THE AGAVES, YOUR PLACE IS REALLY ONE OF THE BEST IN THE NATION, I THINK, FOR
FINDING THESE KINDS OF PLANTS.
NOW, YOU'VE BROUGHT A WONDERFUL ARRAY OF DIFFERENT THINGS, A LOT OF WHICH WE'VE NEVER TALKED
ABOUT ON THE PROGRAM BEFORE.
AND I WANT YOU TO KIND OF HIGHLIGHT WHY YOU ARE WHY YOU WANT TO RECOMMEND THESE TO OUR
AUDIENCE OUT THERE.
THE FIRST ONE THAT WE TALK ABOUT IS THE FARROW CACTUS, YOU BROUGHT TWO SPECIMENS, THESE ARE
STRIKING PLANTS.
FEROCACTUS PENINSULAE.
>> THEY ARE A SPECIES FROM BAJA, CALIFORNIA, FEROCACTUS PENINSULAE.
WE HAVE TESTED THEM OUT A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, PUTTING THEM IN A HEMPSTEAD LANDSCAPE.
THEY TOOK OUR VERY WET WINTERS VERY WELL, WHICH A LOT OF CACTUS DON'T TAKE.
THEY TOOK THE COLD DOWN TO THE MIDDLE TEENS QUITE WELL.
AND WE DUG THEM UP AND THEY HAVE DONE WELL IN CONTAINERS FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
SO THEY ARE VERY A VERSATILE PLANTS AND STRIKING AND VERY SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY.
>> WELL, STRIKING INDEED.
I HAVE SEEN FEROCACTUS BEFORE, BUT THESE HAVE DISTINCTIVE KIND OF OVAL SHAPES WHICH ARE
REALLY BEAUTIFUL AND THAT KIND OF FISH HOOK NEEDLE ON THEM THAT IS ALSO IN AN INCREDIBLE
PATTERN.
>> YES.
THEY DO HAVE VERY PRETTY ORANGEY RED BLOOMS IN THE SPRING AND EARLY SUMMER, SPORADICALLY
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
THEY JUST HAVE AN INTEREST JUST BEYOND JUST THEIR FORM.
THEY HAVE GOT SOMETHING EXCITING GOING ON ALL THE TIME.
>> WELL, JUST THE FORM ALONE WOULD BE ENOUGH FOR ME.
NOW, I WOULD ASSUME A RAISED BED, GRAVELLY SOIL WOULD BE PERFECT FOR THESE.
>> FOR THE MOST PART.
IN HEMPSTEAD BECAUSE WE WERE LOW WE TENDED TO MOUND THEM UP, THEY DID VERY WELL ON SHORT
MOUNDS.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE ROCKY, ALREADY NATURALLY GRAVELLY SOIL, THEY WOULD DO FINE.
BUT IF YOU IF DRAINAGE IS AN ISSUE, YOU WILL WANT TO MOUND THEM UP.
>> OKAY.
AGAIN, FEROCACTUS.
HELP ME OUT.
>> FEROCACTUS PENINSULAE.
>> AFTER THE BAJA PENINSULA.
THAT'S EASY FOR ME TO REMEMBER, ANYWAY.
THE NEXT IS ONE OF THE DIFFERENT AGAVES THAT YOU OFFER AND THIS IS THE HAIRIEST LOOKING
ONE THAT I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.
THIS IS AGAVE MULTIFILIFERA.
>> AGAVE MULTIFILIFERA THE COUSIN "IT" OF THE AGAVE PLANT.
>> BEAUTIFUL, COLD HEARTY, GREAT IMPACT FORM.
EQUALLY WELL IN CONTAINERS OR THE GROUND AS LONG AS YOU MOUND IT IF YOU HAVE DRAINAGE
EASY.
>> DOES IT PUFF OUT AGGRESSIVELY.
>> NO, THIS FORM GENERALLY OFFSETS VERY SELDOM.
>> I ACTUALLY PER THAT.
IT'S HARD TO CONTROL THE COLONIES SOMETIMES FROM THE GET GO.
>> IT'S TRUE, THEY ARE ALSO THEN HARDER TO PROPAGATE AND GET MORE OF THEM.
>> TRUE, RIGHT, RIGHT.
BUT A STRIKING SINGULAR PLANT AGAVE MULTIFILIFERA.
>> AGAVE MULTIFILIFERA.
LOTS OF HAIRS, IN OTHER WORDS.
BEAUTIFUL PLANT AND AGAIN GREAT EXACT FORM.
IF SOMEBODY WANTS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY STRIKING AND SCULPTURAL BUT LOW, THAT'S A PERFECT ANSWER
FOR IT.
>> A GREAT CONTRAST TO THE BIG WIDE LEAFED AGAVES THAT WE ARE TYPICALLY USED TO.
IT HELPS YOU TO DIVERSIFY YOUR BED.
>> SURE, TEXTURE IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT, A COUPLE MORE AGAVES RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.
THE SMALL ONE IS A STRIKING PLANT THAT I HAVE SEEN IN A LOT OF IN THE LOCAL NURSERIES.
>> AGAVE SCHIDIGERA.
>> TELL ME MORE ABOUT THAT PLANT.
THIS IS A VARIEGATED COLONIAL, GREAT, SMALL, PROBABLY NOT HEARTY IN OUR ZONE, BUT SINCE
IT STAYS SO SMALL AND COMPACT IT'S GREAT IF YOU HAVE A SMALL SUCCULENT COLLECTION AND
YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE UP SO MUCH SPACE, YET HAVE SOMETHING STRIKING, THEY ARE IT'S A GREAT
LITTLE PLANT FOR THAT.
>> WELL, JUST THINKING ABOUT IT IN THE LITTLE CONTAINER PLANT, THE WAY WE'RE SHOWING IT
HERE, VERY STRIKING IN THE POT.
>> YES, EVEN AS A TINY LITTLE PLANT, WE SELL LITTLE FOUR INCH POTS FROM FROM MINIATURE
ON UP TO MATURE SIZE, THEY ARE ALSO ALWAYS PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS DRAWN TO THEM.
>> THE BANDING, COLOR OF THE BANDING I THINK IS REALLY THE REASON FOR THAT.
AGAVE SCHIDIGERA.
>> I'M GOING TO LET YOU HANDLE THE LATIN FROM HERE ON RIGHT.
A GREAT LITTLE PLANT.
THE ONE RIGHT NEXT TO IT I HAVE SEEN BEFORE, THIS IS A THIS IS A STRIKING INDIVIDUAL SPECIMEN
OF THE SPECIES.
AGAVE GEMINIFLORA.
IT'S A GREAT AGAVE IF YOU TEND TO LIKE TO OVERWATER A LITTLE BIT.
ALSO, IT TOLERATES SHADE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN SOME AGAVES, BUT HAS A FAIRLY SOFT TEXTURE,
SO IF YOU LAND ON IT, YOU ARE NOT IMPALED FOREVER.
>> FOREVER.
NOTE THE FOREVER PART.
>> YOU MIGHT GET PRICKED, BUT IT WON'T HURT YOU FOREVER.
>> IF YOU GROW IT IN SHADE, IT'S OPEN, LOOSER FORM, STILL VERY ATTRACTIVE.
I ALWAYS PROMOTE IT BECAUSE IT'S TOLERANT OF EXTRA MOISTURE.
>> ALMOST LIKE THE PENCIL CACTUS OF THE AGAVES.
>> YES.
>> BUT A SHARP LITTLE POINT TO THE TIP THERE, BEAR THAT IN MIND, BEAUTIFUL PLANT.
>> THIS ONE HAS GREAT FILIFERA.
SOME MAY NOT HAVE ANY HAIRS AT ALL, OTHERS WILL BE ALMOST YOU CAN'T SEE THE LEAVES.
>> AGAVE GEMINIFLORA.
>> THAT ONE IS EASY, I CAN DO THAT ONE.
NOW, WE HAVE AN ALOE RIGHT BETWEEN US HERE, I LOVE THE COLOR OF THIS.
THIS IS AN ALOE ARISTATA THAT WE GOT A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO, NEVER HAD IT COMPLETELY PROPERLY
IDENTIFIED, BUT HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN OUTSIDE KNOWLEDGE PLANT IN OUR OUTSTANDING PLANT IN
OUR COLLECTION, USUALLY GREW IT AS A POT, PUT IT OUT IN THE GROUND, TOOK OUR COLD, MID
TEENS, VERY WELL WITH ONLY OUTER LEAF DAMAGE, VERY HEARTY, GREAT FOR CONTAINERS, ALSO A
PLANTS THAT WON'T IMPALE YOU IF YOU LIKE SUCCULENTS.
>> RIGHT.
MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE EXPERIMENTING WITH THE ALOES.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE VERY ANXIOUS TO INCLUDE MORE IN THEIR HOME COLLECTIONS.
WHAT I'M FINDING IS THAT I THINK WE'RE ABOUT HOW COLD HEARTY SOME OF THEM TURN OUT TO BE.
>> TO A LARGE EXTENT, BUT THIS LAST WINTER, KIND OF BROUGHT US BACK TO REALITY.
>> I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
>> ONE MORE TIME ON THE NAME OF THIS.
>> ALOE ARISTATA HYBRID.
THERE'S A TRUE ALOE ARISTATA MUCH SMALLER, MORE EXACT.
THIS IS A HYBRID.
>> WE ONLY HAVE A VERY BRIEF AMOUNT OF TIME.
BUT I WANT TO SHOW THESE TWO PLANTS.
THESE ARE DYCKIAS AND THESE ARE PLANTS THAT I KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL ENJOY WORKING WITH.
MANY DIFFERENT FORMS OF THESE AND YOU CAN JUST GET A TASTE OF THESE BEAUTIFUL TERRESTRIAL
BROMELIADS.
YUCCADO.COM, RIGHT?
>> RIGHT.
>> PEOPLE WITH CHECK YOU OUT ONLINE AND ORDER ALL OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PLANTS.
>> COMING UP NEXT, OUR FRIEND.