As mentioned Ritchie, you have a Phormium tenax and not a Cordyline. You can leave the flowers to set seed and cut off the stalk when you feel like it. It produces lots of black glossy seeds that you can germinate. Take a good few years to bulk up, at first it looks like grass.
That's quite a sight Norms - does the flower have a heavy scent - we have similar plants growing in almost every other garden on Guernsey with very strong scent. In fact most of them are very tall plants - tree like.
That's a very healthy looking cordyline w.w. I find the scent is too strong for me - I sneeze almost every time I walk past one of these, but they do look very tropical don't they. They love sunshine, and usually flower here in May/June.
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As mentioned Ritchie, you have a Phormium tenax and not a Cordyline. You can leave the flowers to set seed and cut off the stalk when you feel like it. It produces lots of black glossy seeds that you can germinate. Take a good few years to bulk up, at first it looks like grass.
Hi all, just joined, this is a pic of one
in my garden, she has just flowered
for the first time since planting over
4 years ago, we came home from a
week in Spain to be met with this..
i honestly had a tear in my eye
That's quite a sight Norms - does the flower have a heavy scent - we have similar plants growing in almost every other garden on Guernsey with very strong scent. In fact most of them are very tall plants - tree like.
That's a very healthy looking cordyline w.w. I find the scent is too strong for me - I sneeze almost every time I walk past one of these, but they do look very tropical don't they. They love sunshine, and usually flower here in May/June.