A recent trip to Dallas brought to light a beautiful landscaping solution for the inferno strip that divides north and south-bound traffic on chronically congested Highway 75: Flowering red yucca.
I literally gasped in delight upon leaving an old friend’s house heading south on the much traveled highway, locally known as “Central” or “Central Expressway.” Hundreds–thousands?–of this plant with purpose bloomed from the concrete medium, its reddish-pink flowers dangling from the evergreen’s shoots, waving at drivers racing past.
Known as Flowering red yucca, red yucca, coral yucca, hummingbird yucca, samandoque, and false yucca, the latter name may be the most apt for this plant. Why? Because Hesperaloe parviflora is not a yucca at all…