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Silver Star Yucca
Yucca elephantipes ‘Silver Star’
Everything is included in this price: the plant, free delivery and professional installation
The price you see is the whole job: the plant supplied, delivered free and professionally installed. Done for you.
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Request photosHow tall it arrives: 400mm about 1.5 to 2.5m, 100L about 2.5 to 3.5m. Heights vary with species and season. How pot sizes work
Getting it in: the largest size here needs about 900mm to 1.2m of clear access. Measure the narrowest point on the route and tell us on the booking call. Standard access is included in the price, and anything unusual is quoted and agreed with you before work begins. What happens on installation day
Looking for a larger size?
Sizes shown are the sizes we currently source in this species. If you need larger specimens, project quantities or a size not listed, our sourcing team can look for it through our national supplier network. We confirm your exact stock with you on the booking call before anything ships.
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After checkout, our team contacts you to confirm site access and book a day that suits. Most orders are delivered and planted within 2 to 4 weeks of your booking call. Nothing else for you to organise.
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Product Details
Overview & Specifications
Price includes everything: the plant, free delivery and professional installation by our planting team. One price, whole job done.
Silver Star Yucca - Yucca elephantipes ‘Silver Star’
The spineless yucca is the one architectural yucca that can go beside a path without regret: leaf tips are soft and the margins carry no teeth. ‘Silver Star’ adds a broad creamy white margin to each grey green blade, so the rosettes read as pale silver at a distance and keep working through winter when little else has structure. Mature plants of Yucca elephantipes develop swollen elephant footed trunks that branch into several heads.
Why Silver Star Yucca
Unarmed foliage: Soft tips and toothless margins make it safe around children, pools and narrow walkways.
Variegated blades: The pale margin lifts the plant out of a dark corner and reads clearly under night lighting.
Trunk character: With age the base swells and the stems branch, turning a rosette into a small sculptural tree.
Drought hardiness: Fleshy roots and thick leaves let it go weeks without water once established.
Container performance: One of the most reliable large plants for pots in hot paved courtyards.
Ideal Applications
Entry and courtyard feature: A single multi headed plant carries a whole small space.
Poolside planting: No spines, minimal litter and full tolerance of reflected heat.
Large planters: Suits rooftops and balconies where soil volume and irrigation are limited.
Low water gravel gardens: Provides vertical form among agaves, aloes and ornamental grasses.
Specimen & Installation
Spacing (screening/hedge): 1.5 to 2m
Spacing (feature/avenue): 2.5 to 3m
Best Planting Season: Spring to early autumn while soil is warm
Soil & Drainage: Sharply drained sandy or gravelly soil; mound or raise the bed in clay, because wet winter soil is the main cause of failure
Establishment Care: Water weekly for the first two months to settle the root ball, then move to a deep soak every three or four weeks and stop almost entirely over winter. Use a gravel mulch rather than bark so the stem base stays dry, and keep the crown clear of leaf litter.
Plant Details
Height: 3 to 5m in the ground over many years; 1.5 to 2m in a container
Width: 2 to 3m
Growth Rate: Moderate
Foliage: Evergreen
Light: Full sun to bright part shade; give afternoon shade in extreme inland heat, where variegation can scorch
Native to: Mexico and Central America (species)
Flower Colour: Creamy white, on upright panicles produced irregularly on mature plants
Delivery & Installation
Delivery and installation are included in your price
No freight calculators and no separate installation quote for a standard installation. Your price covers specialist plant transport, positioning and professional planting by our installation team. The whole job, handled.
- Wrapped, secured and transported by specialist plant freight.
- Professionally planted, staked and finished by our install team.
- Our team confirms site access and schedules a time that suits you.
Installation
Professional installation included, never extra
Every plant we sell is planted by our professional installation team, and it's already in the price. We coordinate the delivery, the machinery and the planting for standard site access, so your only job is choosing the tree. Unusual access or engineering requirements? We'll confirm everything with you after checkout before any work begins.
Questions? Send An EnquiryWhy Nursery Direct
Every price includes supply, delivery and installation
Buying a mature tree often means three separate jobs: the plant, the freight and finding someone to plant it. We price the whole job as one: the tree, the delivery and the professional install.
- One price: supplied, delivered and installed
- Mature trees and specimen palms at every scale
- National sourcing for hard-to-find stock
- Residential, estate and commercial projects
How It Works
Place your order. We do the rest.
We Supply
Premium advanced stock, selected from a national network of wholesale growers.
We Deliver
Specialist plant freight brings your order to your door. Free, anywhere in Australia.
We Install
Our professional team plants, stakes, mulches and finishes the job on site.







