Mexican Lily’s Are Amazing

Date: 2008.10.09 | Category: Horticulture | Tags:

I have a few of these incredible plants in my garden….

This is a Beschorneria yuccoides or commonly known as Mexican Lily. This is a photo of the flower head just before it opens up to reveal the amazing individual flowers within! The next photo shows what the plant looks like when it is in full flower….

Beautiful isint it? Now I love these plants because they are just so drought hardy, very very tough and really put on a spectacular show. They have strappy, sword like leaves that are a beautiful grey/green colour and always look really lush even when conditions are not. The leaves are soft tipped too, not sharp and pointy…this is an added benefit for planting around poolsides or kids play areas. They look wonderful in mass plantings or mixed with NZ flaxes and other strappy like foliaged plants. The actual strappy leaved part of the plant probably gets to about 1 metre high by approx the same width. The lovely, long flower head gets quite high above the foliage…probably around another metre or so.

The Mexican Lily is actually a succulent plant and is in the same family as the ever wonderful Agave. It is native to Mexico…