A woman waters a summer garden full of colorful flowering plants with a hose. - Mariia Boiko/Shutterstock Few gardeners dislike visually beautiful plants that are undemanding of their attention. When ...

This is typically the time of the year I might tout hollies, conifers or even poinsettias, but as I was walking around a dark and dreary, rainy garden today it was a cluster of Color Guard yuccas that ...

Look out America, Color Guard and Golden Sword are changing landscapes in dramatic fashion. Believe it or not, these two selections of our native Yucca filamentosa are crushing the cookie cutter, ...

What: Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ is a variegated evergreen shrub that’s grown for its architectural quality, as its striped, sharp-tipped, sword-shaped leaves stand out in any border or as a ...

Water needs: Medium to low-water; once established, water once or twice a month. Snapshot: With colorful striping, this yucca is extraordinary. A wonderful accent to mounding green perennials and ...

You can always depend on spiky plants to provide architectural interest in the landscape. Yucca filamentosa ‘Color Guard’ is an exceptional plant that will not disappoint. Sword-like foliage radiates ...

Any plants that produce color at this time of the year deserve to be sought out and added to otherwise colorless spots in the landscape. Just such a winner is yucca "Color Guard," which bears the ...

Ilike words, especially words you can chew on a bit -which is why I enjoy saying Yucca. And for a multitude of reasons, I think a lot of Florida gardeners will be talking about and planting Yuccas in ...

Variegated yucca, Yucca filamentosa “Color Guard”: This variegated evergreen shrub is grown for its architectural quality, as its striped, sharp-tipped, sword-shaped leaves stand out in any border or ...