February/March 2012
Ok, I’ve got my botanical journal out… Blue spruce? ✓ Oak tree? ✓ Sea rose? ✓ Yucca filamentosa? Fireball hibiscus!?!
By David Svenson
My colleague, a native New Englander, stops at my desk. With a note of surprise, he exclaims, “Hey, that’s Yucca filamentosa!” He’s pointing to the faraway image on my computer screen of the shooting, leathery green leaves of the Yucca. “There’s one behind some rose bushes at Cumberland Avenue and Hanover Street.”
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