It is a flowering yucca plant. The deer really like the flowers. Most of ours are already gone. I ate only a few flowers before they got to them. How lovely to see yours with flowers feeding the ladybugs.
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do I need to worry about all the blobs of brown at the bases of the flowers? I think that is what the lady bugs are after. I have never seen a lady bug up here until this plant flowered.
Ladybugs are very beneficial critters and eat lots of pests, including aphids. I would guess you have a nice little ecosystem going there! The ladybugs are undoubtedly keeping the plant "clean." Enjoy the flowers from the yucca--I think they are very pretty!
Down in Pueblo, across from my in-laws house, a man wanted to be rid of a yucca that was growing where he wanted his chainlink fence. This was starting back in the 1950's.
He dug it up, it came back.
He burned it with gasoline, it came back.
He tried various poisons, it survived.
He used to pour the oil from his oil changes on it for spite.
He chopped it down once a year for about 10 years straight, it kept coming back.
Both him and my in-laws have since passed and the yucca plant is still there, tangled up in the chain link fence.
Don't worry too much about the brown blobs, this is not a fragile plant.
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