Salt Lake City, UT (Zone 7b) | January 2021 | positive
I’ve seen abundant large Cordyline trees here in Brookings, Oregon they’re almost everywhere. I’ve seen the red Cordyline pretty re...Read Moregularly and there are some specimens here in town that are 15- 20 FT+ with multiple branches coming out of the main trunk. I love this variety but it usually grows a lot smaller than the green variety, but sometimes they can become beautiful MONSTERS. They are absolutely eye catching when they get to that size.
Central Phoenix -- We have had success with green or light color variegated cordyline, but not with red or burgundy ones. Dark colored c...Read Moreordyline don't seem to like the intense Phoenix heat and don't make it through the summer. This is in keeping with other experience with dark colored plants not being as heat tolerant as lighter varieties of the same species. It may be that the dark colored leaves absorb more heat than light colored.
New to this site. Hope it's ok to ask for advice... I'm very novice.
I used to keep my Red Star in a pot in the garden b...Read Moreut my new flat has absolutely no outdoor space. I can't keep him on a window ledge either because he's too large.
He seems to be getting sick. The outer leaves started to go brown but I just cut them off. But now ones closer to the middle are getting small cream patches and it seems a bit like they're rotting. The tiny ones in the middle that are coming up are fine.
I do know I should have replanted him in a bigger pot by now and I suspect he's not getting enough sunlight.
Any advice? I was wondering about cutting him right back to the tiny healthy leaves...? Should I take him to the local community garden where he might be happier outside?
As for rating, before I moved the Red Star indoors I was happy with him and before I moved house it was sometimes well below zero degrees Centigrade outside, which he coped with fine.
Really like thid plant one of the very few dark leaved specimem plants tha comes back here in zone 8,ill take about 6 of them in for the ...Read Morewinter and put them back out in spring and they really grow nicely, the ones left in the ground come back but dont have the vigor that the others have ,this is a must have if you do container gardening
Started and growing in hanging baskets since May of this year. Purchased at Lowes, I am surprised it has survived this long outdoors with...Read More a half dozen morning temps in the mid to upper 20's. Made it through some 20 degree mornings as well. Probably two or three heavy frosts and it still remains strong. Only time will tell.
Battle Ground, WA (Zone 8b) | March 2007 | positive
Beautiful plant and basically takes no maintenance. Just pull off the dead leaves from time to time. Ours has grown about two feet in t...Read Morehe year and a half we've been in our house -- it's now around 10 feet tall. It had no trouble with the recent frost in California (we had six nights in a row of temperatures in the twenties), unlike a lot of our plants.
Georgetown, SC (Zone 8a) | December 2006 | positive
This plant was beautiful out side in nearly full sun all summer and fall. I've brought in in for winter and it's done great but the folia...Read Morege has gone a bit greener with the lower light. Sheila965, I'll be interested to hear how yours did over the winter as it sounds like you're trying it outside?
They had these at Home Depot here in Georgia and I purchased two of them. I live in Zone 8b. I hope they make it. Good to see not to w...Read Moreater it too much. I'll keep that in mind!
Northern California, CA | September 2003 | positive
Great color on this form of Cordyline, more cold tolerant than its green relatives. Looks best when leaves are cut at the base in an even...Read More pattern. Trimming it up also promotes faster growth to attain height and trunk strength.
Very suceptible to pocket gopher damage. Can be toppled overnight as these creatures eat away the soft underground trunk and root structure.
I’ve seen abundant large Cordyline trees here in Brookings, Oregon they’re almost everywhere. I’ve seen the red Cordyline pretty re...Read More
Similar to what the last person wrote. . . very susceptible to gophers.
Noticed one of mine, 2-3 ft tall, had collapsed on...Read More
Central Phoenix -- We have had success with green or light color variegated cordyline, but not with red or burgundy ones. Dark colored c...Read More
New to this site. Hope it's ok to ask for advice... I'm very novice.
I used to keep my Red Star in a pot in the garden b...Read More
Doing great, but hasn't gotten any height, yet. I think it needs more sun. I'll relocate in the spring.
Really like thid plant one of the very few dark leaved specimem plants tha comes back here in zone 8,ill take about 6 of them in for the ...Read More
This plant was annihilated after -3 degrees F, snow cover notwithstanding. Krapets, Bulgaria, zone 8a.
Started and growing in hanging baskets since May of this year. Purchased at Lowes, I am surprised it has survived this long outdoors with...Read More
Beautiful plant and basically takes no maintenance. Just pull off the dead leaves from time to time. Ours has grown about two feet in t...Read More
This plant was beautiful out side in nearly full sun all summer and fall. I've brought in in for winter and it's done great but the folia...Read More
They had these at Home Depot here in Georgia and I purchased two of them. I live in Zone 8b. I hope they make it. Good to see not to w...Read More
This cultivar is easily grown in Southern California and and in Florda. Be careful not to overwater--let it dry out.
Great color on this form of Cordyline, more cold tolerant than its green relatives. Looks best when leaves are cut at the base in an even...Read More