Yucca recurva Cousin It Rain Garden Plants short spikes of lavender flowers

short spikes of lavender flowers emerge above the foliage

Ruscus 'Christmas Berry' makes a 1' tall x 1' wide patch in 5 years

(aka: Agave potatorum 'Variegata') This exotic variegated century plant is probably a seedling from Agave 'Kissho Kan'

pale in comparison to the lovely foliage

which is more light green

Yucca recurva Cousin It Rain Garden Plants short spikes of lavender flowersThis bizarre yucca was shared with us by Florida plantsman, Alani Davis, who named it after finding it growing in Leon County, Florida. We are uncertain if this is a mutant wild form of the trunked Yucca recurvifolia, or an old hybrid with that species. Regardless, it's a cool garden plant that forms a 3' tall trunk in three years, topped with a large 3' tall head of narrow 4' long blue green, deer resistant leaves that weep more so than typical Yucca