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Re: Phormium (New Zealand Flax) Propagation

Hi Jose
- These natives are so worth growing as the colour range is 
excellent.  I grow the most common variety (sorry dont know
the name) greeny gray with long flower spikes to attract the 
native Tui bird for its amazing song and looks.  I would 
recommend by division for the smaller varieties but the one I
have no way as it is so large to dig up you would need a tractor
to get rid of it.  For some people they are of nusicence value
because of the expanding clump and tough removal.  
- Coloured forms have a tendancy to revert back to green or bronze
so must remove any foliage that does this.
- Divide in late winter or early spring, my variety has just finished
flowering and the Tui's have gone.  As far as I know species and 
simple coloured can be grown from seed.
- Grow in almost any conditions, frost hardy, most types seem to 
be in zones 8-11
- Germination, from what I could find requires no special treatment,
although I always treat seed with a fungicide, but germin. could be
slow and erratic (perhaps bottom heat would help here).
Lara
Ngaruawahia
NZ
PS the other thing you may want to be aware of is as these are native
Maori tribes under The Treaty of Waitangi are applying for copyright
to native species etc...... this is usually a lenghty process.


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> From: Jose Almandoz. <almand@arrakis.es>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Phormium (New Zealand Flax) Propagation
> Date: Monday, 1 December 1997 12:24
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I am very interested on Phormiums, and would like to raise numbers, as
want
> to use them in several parts of the gardens.
> Do you know what's the 'professional way' to propagate them?. By
division,
> not seed, as they're varieties. What's the BEST procedure to divide
them?.
> Best time in the year?. Any tricks to get the maximum number of new
> plants?. Maybe cutting the foliage near the ground will stimulate them to
> form new growths???
> 
> Please let me hear of your experiences...
> 
> Jose 
>
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