Yukka In The Rain

in #hive-1949132 years ago

Today I'd like to show you the Yukka that was my grandmother's flower. She was very proud of this flower and even after so many years, we still have it.

Yucca is a genus of perennial shrubs and trees from the family Asparagaceae - subfamily Agavoideae. There are 49 species in this family, and they are notable for their rosettes of evergreen, tough, sword-shaped leaves, and large terminal panicles of white or whitish flowers. source

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The past few days have been very uncomfortable, due to the heat. Although summer can be hot here, I'm not comfortable with 35C temperatures and I think my performance is affected by the heat. At first I'm trying to resist, but after a few days, my patience runs out.

Yesterday was a very crazy day, I felt like running away to a better destination, where the temperatures are normal during the day, my normal of course and cooler during the night.

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Today rain was announced and as soon as I got to my dad's, it started raining. It is raining ever since, which is a blessing not only for me, but the garden as well as these high temperatures can kill everything.

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So after finishing what we've planned for today, the rain stopped for a few minutes and I went out to take a few photos about the Yukka and remembered that last year I posted about it and the funny thing is that those photos were also taken in the rain.

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I can't deny that those raindrops add something extra to the beauty of the flower, but it wasn't my intention to focus on the raindrops. This was all mother nature's doing :)

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Unfortunately the light was not the best as it was twilight already, but I tries to do my best.

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So the Yukka is an exotic flower to me, that grows without any care. The only care it gets is cleaning, which usually happens during October, when we clean the garden. Cleaning the Yukka means removing the dry part. Apart from that, the only thing that needs to be done is cut the stem the flowers are growing on, after the flowers are done. Mother nature is taking care of the rest as it grows outside.

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As you can see, the flowers are spectacular, like little bells.

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One would expect a nice scent, but the Yukka doesn't have any.

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It's a simple flower, that looks like nothing special for the most of the year and has a two or three week period, when the flowers grow.

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Now looking at the photos, I was wondering if the flowers would have looked nicer, without the raindrops. Who knows? maybe I can find out after the rain stops.

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The flowers look so beautiful and the yukka flowers have a distinctive texture of petals that are almost similar to orchids, the raindrops make the flowers look so stunning, my friend.

my greetings @deltasteem from Indonesia.

and it looks like the flowers wouldn't look so elegant if there weren't any drops of water :)

Thank you for the nice comment. Indeed the raindrops add something extra to the flowers and you're right, this flower is pretty exquisite.

Thanks for stopping by and have a nice evening 🙂

you're all friends and good night again hopefully always healthy there :)

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Hi @erikah
It must be very meaningful flowers for you and your family. I'm sure, it will be your family's "legacy flower". You can make this flower a family icon.

Very beautiful appearance of raindrops still attached to the flowers. You took the photos very well.

Thank you! Well, the flower reminds me of my grandmother but there are more important things than this flower and besides, no flower lives forever, so one day I'll have to let it go.