by theaccidentalgardener
@ 04/10/2006 - 16:43:11
The bloody yucca has fallen over again. This happened the last time it flowered. So you get two flowerings in almost 25 years, followed by a major collapse.
This time it took an apple tree down with it – the feeble little Kids Orange Red that I bought as a replacement for the canker-prone Orange Pippin.
I dragged it upright and propped it against the fence like a drunk, but not before it had stabbed me twice in the hand and once in the head. It really is a vicious brute. Once again I found it had hardly any root, yet it’s very much alive, so I anchored it with a couple of bungees.
I just pray that the next time a burglar legs it down the back gardens he lands on the yucca when he leaps the fence. It would make it all worthwhile.
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2006-10-04 @ 16:47