Yucca glauca is not the easiest plant to grow. I have had luck transplanting mostly small seedlings, about a few months old and with just a few leaves. Usually, plants in one-gallon containers with mature foliage have not done well for me. I think that this is because the small seedlings are more adaptable. This is similar to growing Opuntia, in that the plants are moved best when small, except that those are best moved as small cuttings.

Anyway, Yucca glauca is one of the true desert-type yuccas, unlike Y. flaccida and Y. filamentosa, which everyone grows around here. Those are from the southeast United States, and most people in Michigan do not know this. Y. glauca has a wide range, covering most of the plains states and in the deserts, as far east as Iowa, and perhaps as far north as central southern Canada. I have seen plants which look to me like Y. glauca in Oklahoma, and they were growing alongside plants with slightly wider leaves, but thin like those of Y. flaccida and Y. filamentosa. I would guess that these plants represent a hybrid swarm or part of a cline, but then who knows? After all, I can't distinguish all the species of Yucca. I just know what looks like a desert Yucca and what looks like a Georgia Yucca.

My plants came from a friend of mine who knows his Yucca species very well, and goes around the country collecting seed. He has also had much success with Y. elata and Y. harimaniae, and some success with Y. baccata and Hesperaloe parvifolia, and a few others. I have attempted to grow Yucca (Hesperoyucca) whipplei, with no success. I also know someone who claims to have grown Y. brevifolia for three years, to a height of one foot tall, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Then it died. Not enough people are growing the dry-climate yuccas, and that is unfortunate. There are a lot of interesting plants in this genus, and very few of them act like weeds in Michigan.

For an extensive website on Yucca, see Benny's Cactus Page. I think that Benny knows a lot about yuccas.