Great capture and lovely to see in flower. We chopped down our Cordyline10 years ago chopped off as much root as we could and poured neat root and stump killer on it as we wanted to lay slabs for a seating area down on that spot and it has just started to sprout again after all these years.
@busylady - It must be over 10ft tall , bought over 30 years ago , started as a pot plant , transferred to the garden , grew too big for that spot , uprooted it and replanted it in its present position . Started flowering 3 years ago and this is the 3rd year flowering !
A great shot of this amazing plant, Beryl! From your story and Wendy's @wendyfrost, I see these plants are tenacious and super hardy! And they flower! And they produce a lovely perfume! Wow!
Looks so much like our NZ cabbage tree but discovered the NZ one is called Cordyline Australis. Also learnt that it is called a Palm Lily. Plenty of flowers on this one. Hubby doesn't like them because the scrappy leaves are so strong and fall on to the lawn and have to be removed. Also the people who take our garden rubbish away won't take cabbage leaves. I thought i could take up weaving!
