Cordylines Growth.

roddydogs

Like a lot of people, I lost 2 Tall Cordylines 3 years ago in that heavy snow.
So I did what "Gardners World" suggested, cut right down to the base.
But since them ive just got a load of leaves, no "Height at all" perhaps I should cut the leaves back to just 1 stem, or what?. A small cordyline should have made about 4' by now. Anyone else got this problem?

roddydogs

obviously not

Funky_Bold_Ribena

To be fair - it's nature's way of taking out those horrid plants.

Could you compost it and put something useful in it's place?

roddydogs

Funky_Bold_Ribena wrote: »

To be fair - it's nature's way of taking out those horrid plants.

Could you compost it and put something useful in it's place?

Thanks for that useless info, silly troll.

walkers-crisps_are_evil

You will have to be patient with it. Put some straw around the base to give it some frost protection in case we are in for another bad winter. You can also erect a fleece structure around it with canes. Hopefully next year it will start putting on some height as mine has (5ft before that winter nailed it). In future wrap the stem in fleece-wish i had that year!

Funky_Bold_Ribena

roddydogs wrote: »

Thanks for that useless info, silly troll.

I'm not trolling I'm suggesting to get rid and put something that is actually useful in it's place.

walkers-crisps_are_evil

Hmm just planted this week 4 8ft cordline australis in customers garden, they look amazing. Guess we all have different tastes!

peter_the_piper

May I suggest that November is not the best time to plant out a fairly tender plant, surely they would have been better kept inside till spring.

Funky_Bold_Ribena

walkers-crisps_are_evil wrote: »

Hmm just planted this week 4 8ft cordline australis in customers garden, they look amazing. Guess we all have different tastes!

Indeed; you put them in and I take them out and put something hardy and interesting in. Jobs a good 'un as they say.

roddydogs

walkers-crisps_are_evil wrote: »

You will have to be patient with it. Put some straw around the base to give it some frost protection in case we are in for another bad winter. You can also erect a fleece structure around it with canes. Hopefully next year it will start putting on some height as mine has (5ft before that winter nailed it). In future wrap the stem in fleece-wish i had that year!

1 was 10' tall, the other was about 12', imaging wrapping all that each winter.
Its really annoying as driving around you see lots of these doing fine & they are never wrapped.

walkers-crisps_are_evil

The bigger the stem the hardier they are funnily enough. Now is a fine time to get big ones in as long as the ground isn't frozen...