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Eastbourne Yucca

exmonkey — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:52:14 +0000

Eastbourne Yuccas

Originally uploaded by exmonkey.

A cracking example of the how the Yucca has invaded our shores - Eastbourne here, where ancient custom demands a new Yucca be planted everytime another person retires to the coast.

coming soon…

exmonkey — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:32:47 +0000

I took a great picture (well it looked great through the view finder) of a yucca in front of Ford open prison yesterday. It is still in the camera so will probably appear on the website in about 8 months. This is the length of time required to:

Finish the film

Lose the film

Find the film and put it in an ‘obvious place’

Find the film again a month later whilst asking youself why you put the film in such a stupid place

Take the film to snappy snaps

Look at a bunch of photo’s you have no memory taking

Upload the only one of interest - which may be the prison yucca. assuming my thumb wasn’t infront of the lens again.

I can’t wait.

Gardens through time

exmonkey — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:32:42 +0000

Right now, on BBC2 - Gardens Through Time, Diarmuid Gavin is currently talking about 1970s gardens - it seems that this is when ‘architechtural’ plants hit the mainstream… And that means yuccas! There are loads!

We have John Brooks to thank for the introduction of these invaders of our sub-urban environment - that and stepping stones on the grass.

New Yuccas added

exmonkey — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:13:51 +0000

Just been going back through some old Yucca photos and have found these beauties.

Lewsiham yucca and Greenwich yucca are within a 1.5 miles of one another, but the difference could not be more stark. Today’s urban yucca occupies a truely classless position.

I have an excellent photo of a Yapton (Ilex way, West Sussex) rural yucca, but the image file seems to be corrupt. I will attempt to get it rescanned and add it as soon as I can.

Yucca Police

exmonkey — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:08:27 +0000

Rotherhithe Police Station

Greenwich - Posh Yucca

exmonkey — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:07:06 +0000

11 Park Vista Greenwich

Lewisham

exmonkey — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:06:05 +0000

38 Lewisham Road, Lewisham

Old Kent Road yucca

exmonkey — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:07:32 +0000

This pair were spotted near Burgess Park off the Old Kent Road

random yucca

exmonkey — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 12:49:07 +0000

First post

exmonkey — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:51:36 +0000

Yuccas are alien. The have encroached on our shores in a slow tide of shiny leaved spikiness.
Yuccas originate from southern United States (I am assuming Texas, Arizona etc). They are desert dwelling plants that would normally harbor small dusty rodents and the occasional scorpion, and here, this insidious invader can be seen in the every road, in every town in our fair land.

Yuccas can be found in front gardens, on window ledges, in skips and occupying the centre of many a local parks’ ornamental flowerbed. They are no respecter of income or social position. Yuccas are the alien children of each and every one of us.

In an effort to bring the spread of the urban yucca to the public consciousness, enshrined in this blog, is my ever increasing collection of photo evidence (as and when I get the images scanned!)