Cordyline Flower Spike

Are you sure it s a cordyline leaves looks more simiar to the phormiums that i have.

Cordyline flower spike. Cordyline red star spike cordyline red star spike is a tall full dramatic plant that puts on a show of color in flower beds or containers. Cordyline australis grows up to 20 metres 66 feet tall with a stout trunk 1 5 to 2 m 4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 7 in in diameter. Here s how to grow new cordyline from your existing plants. Cut just underneath the leaf node and make the cutting approximately 4 to 6 inches long.

This plant is sometimes known as the new zealand cabbage tree or cabbage palm. Everything you need to know about choosing the right cordyline for you. Cordyline australis has become a choice and popular plant for coastal and city planting thanks to its exotic palm like appearance and attractive foliage in shades of green bronze and purple. Our cordyline flowered recently but now that it is nearly over should we cut it off or will it come off naturally.

I leave my flowers on and they become berries which are loved by long tailed tits. Rhs flower shows for the latest on. Before it flowers it has a slender unbranched stem. Ta880w rf tricolor hawaiian ti plant cordyline fruticosa used for thatching and clothing.

They normally flower around june so spikes forming mid may is about right. Flowering spikes of cordyline australis in cornwall uk. On plant cordyline australis. To propagate cordyline from terminal cuttings remove a stem from the plant that contains a terminal bud or that features a growing point on its tip and a collection of buds on the stem.

Should i cut off cordyline flower. Sitting outside on boxing day watching a. I can t rmember who told me that they don t often flower in this country but mine have flowered every year so far. The actual flowers have a wonderful vanilla like fragrance that can be quite overpowering but it attracts the bees and the seed heads form in the autumn which can attract the birds.

So the more frequently it flowers the more heads it will grow. The royal horticultural society is the uk s leading gardening charity. Join the rhs today and get 12 months for the price of 9. The first flowers typically appear at 6 to 10 years old in spring.

We aim to enrich everyone s life through plants and make the uk a greener and more beautiful place. Cordyline can be propagated from terminal cuttings seeds or suckers. Young plants are often used in bedding and container displays. What you ll find is that when they flower the plant then splits the trunk.