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Plant ID - Similar to Dracaena
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message ... The message from "ste-m" contains these words: snip The photo can be found he http://tinyurl.com/q5gjt Dracaena isn't hardy enough to have survived winters, and yucca (which is) is rather slowgrowing in the UK. From the pic, description and speed of growth, I think it's cordyline australis, aka "cabbage palm". and "Torquay palm". They aren't cabbages or palms but a lot of them grow in Torquay, and mature trees have the exotic look of a palm. Thanks for this, it certainly looks exotic! If so, starting in a year or so the lower leaves will die and drop off successively , leaving a bare very fibrous rough textured "trunk" with a big head of fresh leaves at the top (and huge heads of tiny honey scented flowers in summer) . They do grow fast in mild areas , I think the tallest one here is around 40 ft . Higher than that and they tend to get snapped by gales and start regrowing from the base. 40ft? Blimey! Like having a Leylandi in front of the house! :-S I've just took some better pictures and it looks as though the lower leaves are already starting to go brown and die off. However, you can easily keep them to a more manageable size by just cutting off the trunk. New, multiple heads will sprout from below, often making a branched plant with multiple heads. I don't think you're going to want either shape growing that close to a window, unless the view out is truly awful :-), and I wouldn't want the roots that close to the house walls. The view isn't bad, but look out it's like a scene from Jack and the Beanstalk! :-) Moving them is hard work because even young plants quickly send out enormous root systems. I moved two unwanted 5-footers from a neighbour's garden to mine last year and it took two of us a good half day. One died immediately, the other died at the top but the base resprouted this spring and now has 5 strong new heads growing from the base. If you just want an easy way out, you could saw it off at ground level and apply a stump killer. Janet.(Isle of Arran) Thanks Janet, Stephen |
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