Posted by Sascha - Steinau on June 11, 2008, 5:54 pm
Hello,
As first I want show you an update of my garden, a lot of my
Yuccas are flowering now and it looks very impressive.
The left one in the next picture is a German made hybrid which
was rediscovered and renamed by Thomas Boeuf as Yucca glorifolia 'alzenau'
The hybrid is a very old form and stays longer than 50 Years in Alzenau Germany.
If anybody are interested on this hybrid, so I can send you some small plants
of that Hybrid.
The yucca grows very well and has small bluish leaves, we grow this yucca without protection here in Germany.
Frost tolerance: over -25 °C
Furthermore we established a German Yucca society.
One of our biggest project is that we work on a backup collection of
all Yuccas and Yucca hybrids.
The collection is based in a German botanical garden.
For that collection I try to get some Yuccas from the States but its very difficult to become some Yuccas without help.
So my Question to you is if anybody interested to help us.
We hope that can work together on this project and change some
very old hybrids e.g. Foerster, Graebner or Sprenger hybrids etc. with international friends.
Perhaps we will find also a some people that will do the same e.g. in the USA or help us.
A lot of the old hybrids are lost in the past and we don't want that this will go ahead,
that is the main reason why we spent plants from our self for that project.
But nobody should spent now plants if he / she don't want it.
I / we will pay for the plants and the delivery costs.
But what we need is your help.
We will spent the propagated plants from this backup to other partner collections or sell some of them to become more money for
new Yuccas.
So if anybody interested on
Yucca glorifolia 'alzenau'
Yucca x karlsruhnsis
Yucca glaufilata
Yucca x floribunda
etc.
so please feel free to contact me to change some plants or to help us.
We are searching the following plants
Yucca recurvifolia 'Margaritaville'
Yucca filamentosa 'Harry'
Yucca 'Tiny Star'
Yucca recurvifolia 'Banana Split'
etc.
Thanks for you interesting
Cheers,
Sascha - Steinau 
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