Re: high-maintenance Cordylines

>From a UK west coast perspective I'd agree with almost all of Moira's
comments.

C. indivisa flourished here, ie., in a cool damp mild climate, for many
years and made a seriously imposing plant (and left a correspondingly
imposing hole) when it succumbed five or six years ago to our coldest winter
in twenty years. I've finally, this year, summoned the courage to try
again...

C. banksii, grown from seed, has been quick, striking, and quite untroubled
by anything our climate has so far thrown at it. (It was an under-glass
seedling in that coldest of winters so wasn't tested. At that stage in its
life it would certainly have succumbed. Perhaps at *any* stage. Temps. were
comfortably double-figures below for a week or so.)

I haven't tried C. kaspar but I know that it is indeed more tender than
either of the others so probably beyond my *north*western coastal limits
(something which applies to several other v. desirable Three Kings plants) -
but it's grown successfully, I know, in the *south*west (Devon, Cornwall,
Dorset).

Tim
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