Divide phormiums

Dear Tony and Moira,

Many thanks for your info on dividing phormiums. They are very popular plants here in southern California, many new and exciting cultivars are released every year. It helps to know how to grow and manage them.

I confress that before I knew about their needs, I lost a beautiful specimen which I grew in a pot. It had sunk in the pot and with the winter rains we get, succumbed to crown rot. Now I am very careful of drainage for all I grow and they are thriving.

Our Sunset Western garden book, which is the gardening bible for those of us in California, also mentions that although dividing a very large specimen can be daunting to impossible, you can always just take divisions from the outer edges of the plant to contain it and get new plants.

Robin Corwin

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