Cordyline indivisa

I've not tried this species here on the north-east coast of Wales, although a friend who lives some 40 miles west of here has a rapidly-growing (he's been forced to divert the footpath next to it) and increasingly imposing plant in his garden, where it thrives on a west-facing sharp slope receiving some 36" of rain annually. There was a plant of this for sale at Logan Botanic Garden, Galloway, Scotland, when I was there on holiday last week. I toyed with the idea of buying it, but decided to let my head rule my heart - for once.

Round these parts, C.australe is very widely planted in its 'unimproved' green form. I have tried 3 different colour-leaved forms of it, but all three detested the -7C combined with unusually wet weather (coming at the end of an atrociously wet year) in the winter of 00/01. They did produce new growth from the roots last sumer, but it was so pathetically weak and slow that, in this small and overcrowded garden, I had to apply my usual rule: no passengers.

Einion Hughes,
Rhyl
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