Our yucca’s response to warm sun

Last week I mentioned that what little winter we were to experience in South Texas had already limped out of the area, shoved and prodded by the surging warmth of spring.

As proof I offered a photo of a yucca in out back yard landscaped area that was thrusting up a center shoot in preparation for blooming. Here’s the shot, taken last Wednesday, one week ago.

I know it’s difficult to tell the height of that shoot, but I’d guess it had risen about 8 inches above the topmost leaf spike. Here’s the same plant on Monday:

And here it is, from a slightly different angle, today:

At the rate it’s growing and putting out buds, I’d imagine that within one more week it will be fully covered in brilliant white flowers. Stay tuned (or come back from time to time) for additional photographic progress reports.