"Sandy" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a red cordyline which has happily lived in a pot on the patio for
the last couple of years. However, this spring it was starting to look a
little "tired" and a lot of the lower leaves were drying up and dropping
off.

I re-potted it into a slightly larger glazed ceramic pot but it doesn't
appear to be getting any better. The colour looks faded, compared to the
vibrant specimens I've seen at the nursery, there's no new growth and some
of the lower leaves are still dropping off.

Is there anything I can do to revive it or does it have any special
requirements?

I could be wrong but I thought the bottom leaves are supposed to drop of
while it has new shoots from the top, this is how they gain the trunk.

The re-potting may have disturbed it at a point when it was creating new
shoots.