Some pics from NZ

[manda]

Thought I would pop some piccies on of the yucca we have growing in our garden...I was stood out there the other day and this year it's looking lovely..well I like it

Just to give you an idea of how tall it is ..our house is obviously a single storey


The shelter belt is easily twice the height of the house


Flowers up a bit closer.


and a bit closer....


and just so we keep to the spirit of the Lane the leaves up round the crown make great kindling as they shed

[madmum]

When ours flowered like that i went round for a couple of days wondering what the smell was.........It took me a couple of cays to look up and see the flowers

[Kaeta44]

It looks lovely. I was astounded when I planted what I thought were 3 cordylines in my garden and they grew up and up (not as tall as yours, but not too far off). Then they flowered and did so every year after that. I really liked them and the birds loved eating the seeds afterwards.

[wendy]

That is beautiful. Once again I m of where you live.

It Looks very similar to the one I lost, in last years snow.




The flowers are identical and do, also MM, have a strong scent.
What do you think Manda ? I have always thought it was a coryline.

[Benny&Co]

Awwww wonderful pictures of lovely New Zealand Manda

[manda]

Oops sorry I put the wrong name it's a cabbage tree...we've got a few of them around the place!!!! .....a Cordyline Australis...I looked up on the internet to check which one.....never smelt the flowers

[wendy]

Thanks you have at least confirmed what I thought.
Cabbage tree is a funny name for such a beautiful tree.

[manda]

I didn't know they were called Cordylines I only knew them as Cabbage trees ...Gardening is my BIG achilles heel

[suncaddie7]

ok now im home sick for New zealand, Gisborn on north island is where we lived for 4 yrs, its where my dog was born, i love all the trees and Flowers of Nz there stunning and the fruite tast wonderfull Your so lucky to still be there. Hugs x NZ JULIE X

[Americanlady]

This is totally off subject, but I used to know some people from New Zealand. Before I retired, one of my bosses raised sheep, and every year a team of expert shearers came from New Zealand and sheared sheep for all the farmers around here. I was please to meet a couple of them and we became friends. Neat guys -- loved their accents -- and they were so polite and nice to talk with. Wonder how they are these days. One of them gave me a cigarette lighter with a New Zealand company logo on it. Still have it.

[Steve the Gas]

[manda]

Well we have a few sheep here Americanlady ...good times by the sounds of it
Julie...even though we've been rocking around a bit lately (that's my biggest understatement for 2012 so far) there's no where I'd rather be to be honest

[Benny&Co]

This is totally off subject, but I used to know some people from New Zealand. Before I retired, one of my bosses raised sheep, and every year a team of expert shearers came from New Zealand and sheared sheep for all the farmers around here. I was please to meet a couple of them and we became friends. Neat guys -- loved their accents -- and they were so polite and nice to talk with. Wonder how they are these days. One of them gave me a cigarette lighter with a New Zealand company logo on it. Still have it.

They're still very neat and lovely guys AmLady, I married one

[Benny&Co]

ok now im home sick for New zealand, Gisborn on north island is where we lived for 4 yrs, its where my dog was born, i love all the trees and Flowers of Nz there stunning and the fruite tast wonderfull Your so lucky to still be there. Hugs x NZ JULIE X

Lovely aren't they Julie.

I especially like those pinky-red loo brush type bushes that you see everywhere and of course all the lovely ferns too

[Americanlady]

Hey Bennie, glad to meet you. Yes these guys were really nice people. Could be that they still come up here to shear, but since I retired 8 years ago, I have never run across them again. No doubt you and your husband run sheep of your own?