In message , Charlie
Pridham writes

"Janet Baraclough .." wrote in
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Just a quickkie,

I have two very large cabbage palms in my garden which to be honst have
now
got too big (15-16 feet high) for my little garden.
I dont want to simply cut them down so, could anyone give them a loving
home?

They'd probably need a crane to move the huge root systems :-)

If you want to keep the plants you can easily reduce them to a more
appropriate size. Cut the tops off, cut the trunks to ground level and
they will make new sheaves of leaves. Or, you could cut one to ground
level and leave the other one a stem a few feet high.

Janet.

I agree with Janet, there is no way you will be able to remove them (they
will keep regrowing from the deep roots) so a cut back to restore them to a
smaller size would work well.

--
Charlie, gardening in Cornwall.
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of National Plant Collection of Clematis viticella (cvs)


Someone once told me that their roots grow down as deep as the tree
grows up. May be an exaggeration but they sure do grow deep. That
being said, my neighbour did successfully remove a tree that had
stupidly been planted along side the path to the house which meant the
postman and milkman risked life and limb every day. It was about 8 feet
high and he seemed to dig down about 4 to remove it.
--
Chris Boulby National Collection of Diascias