[si-mate]

We've got a large cordyline in our small front garden that is doing a bit too well. It's getting a bit tall at the expense of the base which is brown and has no leaves for the bottom 12 inches.
Am I able to prune it or restrict it's growth?

[shaun]

si thats the way they grow i think up up and away,some of them end up looking palm trees

[si-mate]

Thats not good. It's in front of our kitchen window in a bed about 1.5mx1.5m.
Is there no way you can keep them small?

[shaun]

Thats not good. It's in front of our kitchen window in a bed about 1.5mx1.5m.
Is there no way you can keep them small?

move the kitchen window si  

in my experence they dont like getting moved,a couple of years back I was doing a job and a few of these things had to be dug up and skipped they wasnt that big a couple of feet max,anyhow i took 2 and transplanted them into my garden and they both snuffed it,might have been the time of year or something like that. :?

[jack russell]

hi si

shaun is right they dont like to be moved but on the other hand it is obviously planted in the wrong place so you are left with no choice but to move it,  i would do this before it gets to five foot tall as the roots ar a burger!!

cheers

jr

[Aunt Sally]

I have two cordylines in my garden they are about 8 years old and 14 ft high

[si-mate]

Thanks for your help. Sadly then I think it'll have to go as I've got nowhere else for it.

I suppose I could replace it with a phormium as I love that sort of shape.

[Aunt Sally]

Phormiums have a height of 5 ft and spread of 5 ft.  Do you have the space for that  :?:

[si-mate]

Should be ok. I think the bed must be about 4 -5 ft square. And so long as it doesn't get much taller than 5ft then the window shouldn't be too obscured.