To secretly harbour murderous thoughts about my two yucca plants?

[Oxymoronic]

On our first Valentines day together ten years ago DH bought me a yucca plant which after a year or so, died, but we noticed there were two tiny shoots at the bottom of the trunk so we left them to grow and potted them up when they were big enough.

So they've grown side by side for at least eight years, and we kind of saw them as twins and they used to look nice on either side of our open fire, but they grew so big that they eventually got relegated to our bedroom upstairs.

Now, our bedroom isn't that big, and they now look huge, fkg ugly, and out of place, and I really notice them everytime I've been laying in bed looking about our otherwise lovely room (as you do )

I know they're just plants, but am I being unreasonable to be somehow emotionally attached to these monsters because DH bought their 'mum' for me on our first Valentines day, the day the hosp said DD1 was conceived? In the back of my mind I feel that if I get rid of them it'll somehow jinx mine and DHs happy marriage...is that stoopid?

I wonder if you cut it down it might shoot up again. Then you can have another smaller one off the same stock. I think you can take cuttings or propagate them from the trunk somehow. You'd have to google it though.

We have a huge yucca outside in the garden which looks fab -I'm not sure if its a specific variety for outdoors or whether all yuccas will survive in the garden.

Maybe someone on here will know if you can plant yours outdoors?

I'm with Ruby, they are fine when they are small, but when they grow tall they get all flaky straggly and untidy. I'd do what dirtgirl said, you can have your own self perpetuating family for ever.

Thanks for not flaming me for being ridiculous and telling me I should get a life I hadn't thought I could do anything but chuck them, so I think I'm going to have to look into the cutting back/outside options.

I'm increasingly with you Ruby, they're not the softest plants to the eye.

I've seen them outside too and think they look quite good. Set them free...

Oh, I love the idea of setting them (and me) free Dastardly

The inside sort are usually different from the outdoor sort (mine are!)
This is from a plant care site:

'If your Yucca does reach a height that is unmanageable for you then don?t feel you have to throw it out or pass it on to someone with higher ceilings. The easiest and best thing to do is to take a saw, decide what height you can cope with and hack it down. I know that sounds quite drastic but just shut your eyes and shout timber! For a while you?ll be left with a rather sad looking stick of wood, but eventually little green shoots will begin to appear, either on the top or along the sides, and a bushier, more manageable plant will start to emerge.'

You can take cuttings from what you have chopped off too. My 2ft indoor yucca was grown from a few sad little bits of trunk from a manky old yucca of my mum's. Then you can pass your happy baby yuccas on to unsuspecting family and friends!

Loathe yuccas. Give them the humane killer in short order. Then look baffled and sad and wonder uselessly how on earth it could have happened.

After a few days you MUST start mentioning how nice the room is without the yuccas etc otherwise you'll get more for Xmas, birthday, Mother's day, or something.