Cordyline, Forest Cabbage Tree, Ti Ngahere 'Electric Pink'

Here is coastal western UK (near Liverpool) this is often sold as a bedding accompaniment.. something you can stick in with the annuals i...Read Moren chuck out with them at the end of the season. However many people leave them in the ground and they have proved pretty resilient here, we've had an absolute minimum temperature of circa -2 (28F) in the past 6 years, and they've not batted an eyelid... now the nearest specimen has almost a metre high stem. We'll have to see where it goes from here. Looks spectacular in colour though.

edit: apologies my description is for Cordyline 'Southern Splendor'

When I bought mine three years ago..I really had no idea of what it needed,or how it grew and I paid $40 for a little gallon slip. It jus...Read Moret stood out at the nursery compared to what else was for sale in late fall that year. I took a chance..
Lo and behold-its thrived,planted near the base of a huge Modesto ash. With mostly morning sun and then later again in the day..its grown to close to 4' with four main trunks. Despite the not so great choice-more of no other place for it-the Electric cordy has more then held its own on average watering-maybe less than average.
Its a plant that LOOKS like it must be hard to keep..and is near Juniper like in reality. Or better in part sun !
If it ever gets eye level tall or more,what a spectacular plant it will be.
ADDED 2014: It IS now eye level tall in leaves (close to 6'),has three 3" wide trunks..hefty compared to Cordyline fruticosa for example and furnishes much of the Ti plants exotic looks for those in cooler and sometimes frosty climates. Still has not flowered for me. Very easy care..but I still fertilize and try to water on a regular bases. Its good to me,I try to be good to it.

This is a beautiful plant - tropical looking with its hot pink and greyish purple margins. I've have 3 of these in the ground in a full ...Read Moresun exposure and they've endured 100+ degrees along with 31 degrees in the winter with virtually no damage. This year as I pulled away the old leaf stalks that each clump now has about 5-8" of stem. Its great to think there's some height potential with these plants - I couldn't recommend a better plant for ease-of-care, showy, tropical color and overall low/no maintenance.

This is a hard to miss plant in your garden. I love it! I have 3 of them. So far no care! I water them on occasion, that is it. They...Read More seem to do fine with irregular watering too. No wilting.

I have not even repotted them since the original potting 3 years ago. They have over wintered with no damage at all even in short, light frosts. They have also gotten much bigger. No bugs seem to bother them either!