Is Banana Yucca deer resistant?

Nothing about this one invites a bite: stiff, narrow blades up to thirty inches long, each ending in a spine, held in an open rosette close to the ground. The flower stalk is another matter. Stomach studies have turned up fruit, flowers and stalks in mule deer, so it is the armed foliage they work around rather than the plant as a whole.

Site it once. It runs on thick rhizomes that form a net under the soil and it resprouts from basal buds and from fleshy roots only an inch or two down, so a plant put in the wrong place cannot really be dug out — what you leave behind comes back. Soil is rarely why a planting fails; it takes coarse sand through to fine clay across a wide range of pH. Position is.

Fruit is a separate business. It is pollinated by the nocturnal pronuba moth and by nothing else, and those moths can sit dormant underground for as long as thirty years, waiting on the right season. No moth, no bananas.