Height Question

Last spring my hubby brought several of these plants and they was only small, on the label the height was 4ft, this ones nearly 6ft...when do they stop

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Usually level out at around 16ft I find, at that height they tend to branch out. But it is quite a variable plant and can branch much lower.
Branching takes place after flowering.
Cordyline australis.

You can see this one above the ridge of my greenhouse.

 

I once had two of them. They stood in half barrels either side of my front gate. I thought they would just stay a spikey bush. I didn't realise they grew upwards. Mine grew up about a foot. It then covered itself in side shoots. It must have died because I don't have it anymore. I think a lack of water might of had something to do with it.



G.

 

Down here there seems to be no limit to their height. Dracaena Avenues everywhere we all seem to grow these palms, part and parcel of the scenery here in Cornwall

Gail, they grow quickly in the open ground.

Easy to make them branch out......cut the stem at any point and they will make multiple shoots.
I allow them to grow to about 10' to 15' then cut them back. I have done this a few times now.
If you want multiple stems then cut back almost to the base, hey presto!

In pots they will stay smaller for a long time

Gary, you are more likely to lose them if you overwater or the containers didnt drain well enough . Also will suffer in severe winters

 

Omg Pete, why label 4ft, the one on my back garden had a fast shoot to it, which the neighbour now as and that's took off for him and the other one on the garden as a shoot kicking off also...when I read your reply I told my hubby we're not in Ibiza you know I thought they was going to be a nice stable height.

Here's the other one and thanks for letting me know

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A neighbour by me said she had a beauty in her garden which was tall and out the blue it died off, shame though

 

Verdun I've noticed if we get two days of good rain, they shoot more and I suppose the gravels helping them.

 

well ya best give hubby a spade and tell him you now would like the pool to go with the Palms @Gail_68

 

Bet ya to it already and ask for a spare tub and I can't give ya the answer

 

can only imagine yr reply ...I try to be a woman of few words like yrself and me Mam has always taught us

 

Oh that as made me laugh mate my hubby as preached about me going to church but I don't want to put bills on the church roof being done, as I know it would cave in once I stepped my foot in there