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transplanting Cordyline
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Posted by Hibernia (My Page) on Tue, Sep 6, 05 at 3:53
| Have read exchanges of a couple of years ago. Anyone got anything to add? I would like to transplant a 3.5 metre Cordyline australis now in nice mild damp Northern Irish weather. Will try to get all the root. Will stake v. carefully. Should I remove (pull off or cut?) some leaves, or just reduce them by reducing their length? Mature plants in pots cost a fortune here and this Cordyline wld. be much happier and would do a better job visually in the more sheltered position I wld. like to offer it. All advice v. welcome and needed urgently. |
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RE: transplanting Cordyline
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I have found Codyline australis extremely tough plants. If you cut the whole trunk off, it would still grow!
I was given an old concrete pot soemone didn't want. It was still full of soil and a dead stick looking thing in it. I left it sitting around and the stick started to grow. It was a Cordyline australis, now it is multistemmed and about fifteen foot high! They are very resiliant and you won't have to treat it with kid-gloves. Only thing I would caution, it is maybe a bit late in the season to do this. Would be better to replant at the beginning of summer, rather than the end.
Good Luck with it.
Joylene. |
RE: transplanting Cordyline
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| thanks for the encouragement Joylene. But I have already lost one mature Cordyline australis in transplanting. We moved this one on Tuesday. Was growing in shallow stony soil on clay and unlike the last one wh. I moved and lost this one did not have a long tap root, but a wider spread root ball which we managed to get out intact. The tree was not out of the ground for long. I think you are right about getting the timing wrong. I sould have done it earlier in its growing season but had some idea that evergreens should be transplanted here in September or March. I was worried to see that the day after the move, the soft growing terminal shoot had keeled over and we couldnt get to it until yesterday to strap it up by making a bamboo cage to support this new growth. Luckily our weather is warm and wet at the moment and the Cordyline is now in good ground. So fingers crossed. Katherine |
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