cordyline

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Myrtus Luma
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Myrtus Luma
3" pots 2" tall $2.50 each or 5 for $11.50, a tray of 20×3" pots only $39.90

Neighbours-Be-
Gone®Trees,
Acmena smithii
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Neighbours-
Be-Gone®Trees,
Acmena smithii 6” pots 6.90 ea.

Bloom 'in Box™ Cuphea

Bloom 'in Box™ Cuphea The perfect flowering border
5 plants per metre
6" pots only $3.90 ea.
A tray of 20×3" pots for $39.90

Lambs Meadow® Sutera
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The Meadow Lawn ™ Landscape. Grow 6 sq. metres of Meadow Lawn for $39.90

Box Leaved Privet

Borders on a budget, Box Leaved Privet 6" pots $4.50, 3" pots $2.50 each or 5 for $11.50.
A tray of 20×3" pots only $39.90

Aussie Outdoor Palm Cordylines

When I was a kid I lived in an old weatherboard house in the hills and was mightily impressed when my uncle Kevin built a modern style triple fronted brick veneer house in Bundoora. Uncle Kevin called on my dad, a nurseryman, to help him with the landscaping.
When we saw the completed design around the front of his house we were even more impressed! Dad and Uncle Kevin had created a square garden bed either side of the front landing and planted Flax and Succulents and spread some pebbles around the plants and they had finished the garden off with a painted concrete aboriginal standing on one leg.

The centerpiece of the gardens was a Cordyline australis or an Outdoor Aussie Palm. It looked very exotic with its lush green grassy head and attractive textured trunk; it shot up in no time and gave an exotic tropical feel.
Ever since I have had a soft spot for the Aussie Outdoor Palm as nothing grows so quickly and easily to give an exotic lush tropical palm like feel. It is amazing to see that the Aussie Outdoor Palm, pebble, succulents and flax are all back in fashion, I wonder if the concrete aboriginal statue standing on one leg will come back!

Cordylines are a genus of ornamental shrubs and trees grown primarily for their foliage

They originate from Hawaii, South America, New cord4.jpg (25929 bytes)

Zealand, Polynesia and we have 8 native species here in Australia. Cordyline australis varieties are best grown in the Melbourne climate and usually have a single trunk with several ascending branches, each topped with a large thick mass of long sword like leaves, the colours range from green, purple and yellow shaded with dark pink. Cordylines don't seem to mind the soil they are in as long it is well drained, they grow well in cord6.jpg (33014 bytes)

coastal areas. Once established they need little water and will tolerate dry soils. Plant in full sun to part shade and fertilize every 6 months with Devotion™ Time Release fertilizer.

Some different varieties are:

'Red Star' A stunning accent plant for all gardens, has lovely ruby red to burgundy sword shaped leaves, great to add colour to the garden or very classy in a pot. Flowers appear above the foliage in long drooping panicles. Grows to 2 metres. cord3.jpg (28582 bytes) cord5.jpg (29411 bytes)

'Cordyline australis' The New Zealand Cabbage Tree is a slow growing evergreen sparsely branched tree with each branch ending with a crowned rosette of strapped shaped long green leaves, in late spring small fragrant white flowers in large open panicles are formed. Grows 6-8 metres.

'Cordyline australis purpurera' A slow growing evergreen tree with purple to purple-green leaves, has sprays of white flowers in summer and small globular white fruits in autumn.

Green Cordylines start from $5.90
Red Cordylines start from $19.90