Yuccas: Ghosts in the graveyard

Yuccas are these amazing new world plants with a vast natural range. They grow all the way from Baja, California in the west, to Florida in the east, Canada in the north, and Guatemala in the south.

These beauties have strong evergreen sword or strap-like leaves, and they produce dramatic spikes of glorious white flowers once a year.

Another more evocative name for them is ‘ghosts in the graveyard.’ This comes for the high number of yuccas growing wild in forgotten graveyards, where their large white flower clusters appear as ghosts in the moonlight.