Pruning My Yucca

I have several yuccas together and in cleaning my beds just now, I noticed a lot of dead leaves and dried up dead looking tubers. I didn’t realize that you are supposed to dig out the bloom stalk after its show. There are a number of these dead looking tubers under the mass. I did also see new green growth coming up beside one of the older stalks. I guess my question is should I remove all the old dried up foliage and tubers? I don’t want to strip the grouping so much that they are naked! But, I also want to give it as many opportunities to grow and multiply.

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#1 Comment By Nikki On 03/22/2011 @ 6:07 am

You can remove the old leaves and tubers if you want, but you do not need to. The plants should produce pups regardless of whether the dead material is removed.

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