Color Guard Yucca Live Plant – Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' (Adam's Needle)

Add year-round color and architectural interest to your garden with Color Guard Yucca, a striking evergreen perennial with bold, sword-shaped variegated leaves. Its creamy-yellow centers contrast beautifully with dark green margins, while the foliage can develop attractive rosy-pink tones during winter.

This hardy, low-maintenance plant is an excellent choice for sunny landscapes, rock gardens, coastal gardens, and water-wise planting designs.

Plant Features

• Botanical Name: Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard'

• Common Name: Color Guard Yucca, Adam's Needle

• Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen shrub

• Foliage: Sword-shaped leaves with creamy-yellow centers and dark green edges

• Winter Color: Foliage may develop rosy-pink tones

• Mature Size: Approximately 2–4 feet tall and 2–4 feet wide

• Flower Stalks: Approximately 4–8 feet tall

• Bloom Season: Mid-to-late summer

• Flowers: Fragrant, creamy-white, bell-shaped blooms

• USDA Hardiness Zones: 4a–10b

• Cold Tolerance: Reported to tolerate temperatures down to approximately -30°F

Growing and Care Instructions

Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade. Full sun encourages the brightest, most vibrant foliage color.

Soil: Prefers well-draining sandy, rocky, or loamy soil. Adaptable to poor soils and various soil textures, but avoid heavy, waterlogged clay.

Watering: Drought-tolerant once established. Provide low to moderate watering and allow the soil to dry between waterings. Avoid overwatering.

Maintenance: A low-maintenance landscape plant once established.

Garden Uses

Color Guard Yucca makes a bold focal point in many landscape settings:

• Rock gardens and xeriscapes

• Mediterranean-style landscapes

• Coastal and seashore gardens

• Container gardening and patio displays

• Specimen planting

• Slopes and banks where its root system can help stabilize the soil

Its summer flower stalks rise above the foliage and carry fragrant, creamy-white blooms that can attract butterflies and hummingbirds.

The plant is also described as salt-tolerant and highly resistant to deer and rabbits.

Shipping Information

• Free shipping is available to most locations.

• Larger boxes and shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, APO addresses, U.S. territories, and locations considered remote may require an additional freight surcharge.

• Orders may be held when temperatures are above 89°F or below 20°F to help protect plants during transit.

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Plant Quality and Customer Support

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