Cabbagetree Care

When growing a cordyline indivisa, it's important to keep the soil evenly moist. You can water freely in dry weather.

The cordyline indivisa isn't typically pruned, but you can cut back any shoots that are growing off the side of the plant.

The cordyline indivisa can be fertilized; just be sure that if it's being grown outdoors, that you wait until the middle of the spring. A balanced fertilizer can help promote new growth. You should fertilize regularly for the best display.

Cabbage palms are particularly well-adapted to the Southeast, and they are the state tree of both South Carolina and Florida. Nearly hurricane-proof, the tree remains standing against the wind long after pine trees snap in two and oaks are uprooted. Choose a sunny or partly shaded site in any well-drained soil.

The cabbage palm growing region includes USDA plant hardiness zones 8b through 11. Temperatures below 11 F. (-11 C.) can kill the plant.

Cabbage trees are good container specimens for large containers.

Growing 12 to 20 metres high, cabbage trees (Cordyline australis) have long narrow leaves that may be up to a metre long. It has lovely scented flowers in early summer, which turn into bluish-white berries that birds love to eat. As the plant gets old, the stems may die but new shoots grow from any part of the trunk.

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