"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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from "Des Higgins" contains these words:

our garden is covered in dead Cordyline leaves. I have tried
shredding them
with a small shredder and they simply tangle and jam it. I also tried
running over them with a petrol mower and same happened. I tried
composting
and they emerge after 6 months looking the same as when they went in.
Anyone got any recipes? Can you smoke them? Could I build an extension
or
line the chimney with them?

You could strew them on the floor in the house as an ecological
stain-proof carpet. Or if you're very posh, weave them into mats.

They burn very well (as do phormium leaves) so are useful to get the
bonfire burning hot and clean. I gather them into a bundle and use one
leaf to tie it into a sheaf. Stack it on end until the next bonfire.

Janet

we live in a housing estate and I am wary of fumigating the neighbours. If
they really do burn clean and hot that may be worth a shot though.