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Cordyline!

SunnyFl

By SunnyFl
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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We were at a very nice nursery today that's right up our street.  Looking for something to use as screening when an incredible Ti Red Sisters jumped out at me.  This thing is big - and the leaf bases are beautiful, really never saw a Ti Red look so nice.

It is now planted in my front yard  :D

I'll take photos of it, I promise, along with the Searle haul (have the film, but keep forgetting).

St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

spockvr6 Grand Master

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Sunny-

The great thing about Hawaiian Ti plants is....buy a few...and youll have a yard full in a few years time!  They propagate from cuttings with about a 99% success rate.  I must have 40-50 of them at this point!

Larry 

Palm Harbor, FL 10a / Ft Myers, FL 10b

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(spockvr6 @ Oct. 08 2006,19:52)

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The great thing about Hawaiian Ti plants is....buy a few...and youll have a yard full in a few years time!  They propagate from cuttings with about a 99% success rate.  I must have 40-50 of them at this point!

Yes they do - and your place must look great with all those cordylines!  When the sun shines through those leaves, the effect is amazing.

I yanked out all mine a few years ago, as all summer long, they were never without lubbers :o

But when I saw this one, oh fuhgeddabout the lubbers, gotta have it.

It's a group of three - the largest stem is 6'4" tall and I won't be cutting it back.  I've gotta post some piccies of it.

St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

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(SunnyFl @ Oct. 08 2006,21:02)

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It's a group of three - the largest stem is 6'4" tall and I won't be cutting it back.  I've gotta post some piccies of it.

6'4"!?!? We need a pic!

Larry 

Palm Harbor, FL 10a / Ft Myers, FL 10b

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Picture, picture!

(Pre-swooned on sofa . . . . )

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Speaking of Cordylines

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Kona, on The Big Island
Hawaii - Land of Volcanoes

Jeff Searle Grand Master

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Looks like Peter Buck.

Searle Brothers Nursery Inc.

and The Rainforest Collection.

Southwest Ranches,Fl.

SunnyFl Mentor

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(spockvr6 @ Oct. 08 2006,21:09)

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6'4"!?!? We need a pic!

Piccies as promised.  Here's the first, which is unfortunately quite blurry.  This is the overall plant.

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St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

SunnyFl Mentor

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The leaves on one of its shorter stems:

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St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

SunnyFl Mentor

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And this is a close-up of the stem:

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St. Pete

Zone - a wacked-out place between 9b & 10

Elevation = 44' - not that it does any good

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Daryl Grand Master

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Gotta love 'em. Great companion plants for palms. Nice photos guys. Here's one of mine which has been in the ground for 3 years and has just powered along. It must be 12 feet tall now. Cordyline 'schubertii'

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Daryl.

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

Redland Enthusiast

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Daryl,

What is the cham looking palm to the right of our Cordyline 'schubertii' in the above pic?

John

JCD

South Florida

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'Schuberti" I can't believe it.  I am 'Shoberti'

Alan

Tampa, Florida

Zone - 10a

Neofolis Veteran

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Wow, I didn't realize that Ti plants are types of Cordyline.  The cordylines here are all australis or indica or variations thereof and despite some having nice colourful foliage are generally quite dull, but I've always liked the pictures I have seen of the Ti plants.  I don't suppose they are cold tolerant, but do they do OK as houseplants?   The ones pictures always seem to be in full sun.

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Daryl Grand Master

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John, that is, believe it or not, a Dypsis. I got the seed as Dypsis sp. 213 about 5 years ago.

Close, Alan!

Corey, I think they are Cordyline fruticosa, or cultivars thereof...

regards,

Daryl

Gold Coast, Queensland Latitude 28S. Mild, Humid Subtropical climate. Rainfall - not consistent enough!

spockvr6 Grand Master

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(Daryl @ Oct. 27 2006,07:10)

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Gotta love 'em. Great companion plants for palms. Nice photos guys. Here's one of mine which has been in the ground for 3 years and has just powered along. It must be 12 feet tall now. Cordyline 'schubertii'

12 ft!??!?!?!

Holy smokes!

I can always cut mine back once they got maybe 5 ft or thereabouts, so as to have some more free plants  :D

It seems there is hardly an easier plant to root from a cutting than a Ti plant.

Larry 

Palm Harbor, FL 10a / Ft Myers, FL 10b

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Je regret as I think the French song goes but the Ti is I think impossible over here and I cant even remember seeing one on our mildest place which is Tresco island.

The plain green C.australis is about the only one to grow really well here but at least has the ability to keep its foliage fairly green in the face of head on winds on the sea front directly off the English Channel.

Regardez

Juan

Juan

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