Phormium Cookianum 'Tricolor'
By Simbad
- 27 Mar, 2015
- 10 likes
This is one that I thought I'd lost after one of the cold winters, every leaf died but luckily it regrew and is back to how it was.
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There's another quite near this one that also lost all its leaves and remarkably it recovered too, if it wasn't for the fact there were so many other things to clear after those winters they may have been dug up !!!!! Thank goodness they were last on the list !!!!!
28 Mar, 2015
Simbad, Does this flower?
28 Mar, 2015
They are so nice to good for contrasting with other plants.
28 Mar, 2015
It does Siris, I tried growing the seed one year got loads of seedling half were plain green the others were plain cream, all the cream ones died the green I threw as they weren't very pretty.
Thanks Dawn :-)
29 Mar, 2015
I'm glad you put this on. If mine lost all it's leaves I'd dig it up thinking it was gone. Good job you didn't! Its a very handsome plant. :)
29 Mar, 2015
I nearly did Karen phew ;-)
29 Mar, 2015
Maybe it is even better after its re-birth!!
It looks splendid!
3 Apr, 2015
Thanks Wildrose I think your right :-) there's another just a few feet from this one with dark leaves, the soil they're growing in is pretty rubbish, grey heavy clay,so can't believe how well they're doing they did get a treat last week of some well rotted manure :-)
3 Apr, 2015
Our soil is heavy clay too, not the easiest is it?!!
3 Apr, 2015
No its not :-) luckily we have a friend who regularly brings us bags of horse muck and we do have areas of better soil that was brought in when we built the house so its not all as bad , our last house was really sandy soil which was much worse !!
4 Apr, 2015
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My goodness that is massive, cannot believe it lost all its leaves, luckily ours are not as big as that, otherwise we would be in trouble lol
27 Mar, 2015