By Sharky
Australia 
I have no real gardening experience but now that i have time i am willing to start learning. My question is firstly what is this plant/shrub that i have in my garden and can they be pruned after flowering as they are growing very tall.
27 Oct, 2011
Answers
First welcome to GoY Sharky WOW its stunning.
28 Oct, 2011
Welcome from me too Sharky. It is a cordyline in flower. If you have too many you can chop them down as this is how they should grow. The nice thing about them is that they have a tall stem and you can safely underplant with other plants. Many in UK lost theirs last year in our severe winter. Well done Pamg for growing your seedlings.
28 Oct, 2011
They do get tall, often making 12 feet or more. But as its spring where you are, you can saw through the trunk at an angle to allow rain to run off - this means the plant should produce new growth lower down the trunk, or from the base.
28 Oct, 2011
I was wondering if the plant will flower at a lower height and it will take up more room than it does at present.
28 Oct, 2011
Castle Douglas on Scotlands southwest coast-- on the gulf stream-- had a beautiful Cordyline walk-- about 40 trees lining either side of a grassy walk--- they're all dead due to the harsh winter-- so very sad, the gardens have an Arucaria walk, azalea walk and Thuja radiating off a central glade it was so sad to see the stumps which in july only an occasional one was shooting.....
28 Oct, 2011
wonderfull example, nice and warm for it. Like others lost mine last winter. hope you enjoy GoY Sharky. well done Pamg.
28 Oct, 2011
A big thankyou to everyone for you advice and comments, I do appreciate you giving me the benefit of your experiences.
I have about 20 Cordyline in my garden ( front and back) and almost all are flowering as per the pictures. They do look stunning.
28 Oct, 2011
welcome from me to . thats a lovley flower you have on a cordiline especialy with all the horrer stories with these harshish winters and said plants .
29 Oct, 2011
-- I like the new avatar Nosey...
29 Oct, 2011
thank you so much pamg thats an 8` concrete lady i designed and helped build . well the arty bits as i got a bad back . if you look on utube under noseypotter you will see a lot of my work or just look at my blogs . she is one of my faves and i call her rosey the lady of the garden looking over my pond and plants etc x .
29 Oct, 2011
sorry about you poorly back Leigh-- your lady is a wonder....:o)
30 Oct, 2011
bless ya thanx pam i wish i could make you one xx
30 Oct, 2011
bless you Nosey but my garden is so open to the wind she'd probably do a 'Mary Poppins'.....
30 Oct, 2011
no chance rosey belies her weight she probably weighs half a ton lol xx.
31 Oct, 2011
ah! she's probably happy where she is....:o))
31 Oct, 2011
ow sorry you cant have my rosey lol x .
31 Oct, 2011
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from the other side of the world it looks like a cordyline in flower, this time last year ( autumn for me) mine had set berries which I planted and overwintered in cold conditions-- I now have trays of young cordyline about 9" high-- that I've got to over winter!
28 Oct, 2011