The winter planting continues

Hesperaloe parviflora "Brakelights"

Matt and I spent some time at PRG yesterday, and at PG today, planting more new and interesting plants. Here's what went in:

At PRG we planted 5 Hesperaloe parviflora "Brakelights" down at the bottom of the garden. This almost grass-like succulent is also known as a Hesperoyucca - it really does have yucca-like leaves. This one also has lovely little flowers which you can see in the photo.

The small clumps should grow into a bigger grouping eventually, but very slowly. They are extremely drought tolerant and should do really well in the spot we placed them.

Furcraea foetida "Mediopicta"

Next up, we placed three Furcraea foetida "Mediopicta" further up the street.

This is a strongly variegated, but spineless type of Furcraea that's very decorative. They seem to have had some leaf damage but I'm hoping they grow out those damaged parts quickly.

We picked up trash all down the street, and noticed that all the green waste from a couple weeks back finally got picked up by the 311 folks. Yay.

Yucca rostrata "Blue Velvet"

Lastly, we put in two new Yucca rostrata "Blue Velvet" to go with the larger Yucca rostrata we already have on PRG which is doing so well - despite having been somewhat overshadowed by the large bush mallow shrub next to it.

This is a very slow growing but super tough Yucca, and hopefully these two will do well.

Yucca desmettiana "Blue Boy"

Today Matt and I went up to PG and popped in 8 plants there. We started out by thoroughly weeding the middle back bed on the street side, in preparation for adding 5 Yucca desmettiana "Blue Boy" in there.

This is a fantastic reddish-purple colored Yucca and having a group of them like this is pretty cool. We moved one of the Agave gypsophyllas and an Aloe arborescens to make it work, as well as digging out a huge slab of concrete buried in the dirt.

Yucca filifera

Next we put in three Yucca filifera in the top bed. These guys will very, very slowly before trees but it will be many years before that happens.  We have two more to add to the same spot.

This is a super, super spiky plant. Don't hesitate to stay the heck away from it, or you'll get stabbed!

Lastly, we picked trash and called in a 311 pickup for it.

So that's 18 new plants for PRG and PG - all of them brand new species for us. Let's hope they do well.