'Karo Kiri'

[Ade Shattock]

Anyone one else been tempted by the odd looking Cordyline Australis 'Karo Kiri' ?
I looked at them last year but left them on the shelves but today one came back home with me, maybe it was just the need to buy something, Im not sure.
Im not sure either what I am going to do with a dwarf Cordyline, maybe I'll need another two of different heights to make a display in a pot, maybe I'll just plant it and see what happens.
I'll try to get a picture up tomorrow.

[BrunoCork]

Hi Ade, I struggle with this one but have managed to keep it alive for the last few years. The stem rots so easily in Cork's wet winters, but mine has resprouted from the base...twice! I now have it planted at the base of of a wall in a raised, free draining gravelly bed with borderline hardy succulents for neighbors and it came through this past winter unharmed. The downside to this is the soil is so poor that it grows very slowly.

[Ade Shattock]

Thats interesting Bruno, perhaps its one best grown in a pot for me then.
Its a bit of a funny one to place in the garden but Im sure I'll find somewhere for it.

[Chrisg]

May work well in a dry bed. Very quirky looking.

Have they been around for long?

[Taffy]

May work well in a dry bed. Very quirky looking.

Have they been around for long?

"The Range" have started selling them for the first time this year.....£20 (ish)

[Ade Shattock]

The first time I saw them was last year.
£3.00 and £6.00 a piece at Brambridge Garden Centre and £13.00 at The Range

[BrunoCork]

I first saw them for sale here about 5 years ago.

[Chrisg]

I first saw them for sale here about 5 years ago.

Strange that they have been around for a while, but not attracted much attention.

[BrunoCork]

I first saw them for sale here about 5 years ago.

Strange that they have been around for a while, but not attracted much attention.

They've been in Ireland a few years as they were microproped and introduced by http://www.fitzgerald-nurseries.com/

http://www.myplant.ie/plant.php?id=34&t ... bbage+Tree

[David Matzdorf]

It's an oddly proportioned thing. I wonder if it would look good planted as a grove of 5 or 7.

I never developed a great attraction for Pseudopanax ferox or P. crassifolius until I saw what Kiwi garden designer Jimmy Fraser did with them in a client's garden in South London: he planted them in wide-spaced groups of about 5, with feathery grasses between them. Brilliant.

This plant seems similarly constricted and sparse and thus prone to planting in groups to make a statement.