I'm a real show-stopper in any tropical-or-Mediterranean-style garden. I love being in a border alongside other plants, and I'm also happy in pots. My dark red leaves reach up for the sun. I'll thrive in a typical British summer, and if the conditions are right I can grow to a couple of meters tall. If you put me in a large pot I'll seem even bigger! You can treat me the same as one of your usual summer bedding plants. I trace my ancestry to New Zealand, where the climate is often very similar to the UK. I'm not keen on wet clay soil, but generally I will enjoy any weather our summer and autumn throw at me.

Cordyline

That depends where you keep me. If I'm in a pot in a cool shady exposed balcony I might grow 5-or-10 centimetres taller each year. If I'm in a warm sunny border with loads of moisture and feed I might grow 30 centimetres a year. Ultimately I can grow to be a medium sized tree so don't plant me too close to a wall or fence.
It all depends on what type of winter we have. As a general rule of thumb I'm hardy and for the last 50 years I've sailed through a typical British winter. Then again, what's typical anymore when it comes to our weather? Last year many cordylines were lost because of the sustained wet and icy freezing weather, and the Beast From the East a few years ago decimated cordylines across Britain. I'm still young, so a little winter protection would be much appreciated, although to be honest, a few degrees below zero is really nothing to me. I would be grateful if you could try to stop ice forming in my top crown especially during my first winter with you.
Each year I can absorb up to 1 kg of CO2

That's about enough to:

Fill 1 beach ball

Drive a car for up to 2 miles

Make 16 cups of tea

*rough estimate using data sourced from:

haskins.co.uk

cogo.zendesk.com

Cordyline

How big do I get?

Where am I happiest?

Watering

Children & pets

What about winter?

Carbon dioxide absorption...