"Mike" wrote in the following message

I have a plant in my garden which from searching pictures on the web looks
to be what might be a phormium(?).

It has large pointed thick leaves coming out of the ground it appears to
grow outwards ie growing from the middle. The leaves are now 8 feet tall and
the leaves are splitting and have flopped over.

It never flowers, it only has these leaves, which is contrary to what i
have read about Phormiums so i am assuming there are some types that don't
flower


This is the plant that prompted a minor domestic dispute in my household. I
think that it is wonderful. My wife has a different view of it and wanted
to remove it completely. An agreement was made to reduce it's size. So
better half attacked it with a bread knife(!) - removing much of the outer
growth. Poor little thing must have thought that it was going to die and so
put out flowers which must have got to 12ft. If this goes, so do I ;-)

Regards

David Berry