Phormium tenax
- To: medit-plants
- Subject: Phormium tenax
- From: v* d*
- Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 00:06:38 +0000
Edward's question regarding the "cutting back" of a Phormium tenax brought
to the fore a vision of the workman I got in a couple of years ago, to do
just that to an enormous P. tenax outside of my studio window, the plant
almost completely obliterating the light from the window.
I see him now hacking away at the monster with his axe. He eventually
reduced the plant to about half of it's original volume. Now, I may add, it
has resumed it's dimensions and once more cuts out the light from the wndow.
Back to the gentle snip, snip of the axe?
Phormium 'Cream Delight' is a beaut. as is the small and very classy 'Tom
Thumb'
Val Dennison
Co. Limerick Zone 9
Rep. of Ireland
