New Zealand Flax advice please

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New Zealand Flax advice please
« on: March 07, 2011, 18:10 »
I have a New Zew Zealand Flax which over the past few years has got rather larger than I'd like it to be.

This winter it seems to have suffered and the leaves become very limp and drooped.  It doesn't seem to have gone soggy in the middle however (unlike my cordyline).

I'm assuming that the flax will pick up but this seems to be an opportunity to trim it back and get rid of any excess leaves and generally reduce its size.

Advice on how I go about it would be gratefully received.

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Re: New Zealand Flax advice please
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2011, 18:40 »
I don't know about specifics, but on this weekend's local radio gardening show, most of the questions were about plants which were sorry for themselves after the winter, and the general advice for tidying / pruning them was to wait until the end of the month or early April.
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Re: New Zealand Flax advice please
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2011, 18:42 »
I think it's more than pruning - it's more a case of digging/splitting the roots I think!

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Re: New Zealand Flax advice please
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2011, 18:51 »
I think it's more than pruning - it's more a case of digging/splitting the roots I think!

Old leaves can be cut right back with a very sharp knife; when it comes to "propagation" (for whatever reason) it can certainly be done with a sharp spade. It's normally done in autumn to allow the plant time to settle/root before winter but I don't see why it wouldn't work in spring once it warms up a bit so long as it gets a bit of TLC (the belt-and-braces solution would be to replant a new piece and let it establish before digging up the old one.)

(My neighbour has done this more than once in the 12 years I have been living here.)
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