cordyline

Some half-hardy exotics such as cordyline and callistemon

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Over the past few months four palm trees, or cabbage trees (cordyline australis) as they should correctly be called, have withered away, and now the worry is that the problem will spread to others.

Picture-Perfect Palm Trees Withering Away | Impact Lab 2007

On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella.

Archive 2006-12-01 2006

On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella.

What I cooked last night. 2006

The kalo leaves are eaten like spinach (_luau_), and the flowers (spathe and spadix), cooked in the leaves of the cordyline

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

Or like this shell ginger, cordyline, agave, lipstick plant, and the thanksgiving cactus that dresses up the porch's little birdbath each summer:

Garden Voices 2010

* Does not count the random succulent cuttings that are rooting at the base of the cordyline

Garden Voices 2010

Here in the Lost Delta, some of the exotic flora that will catch your attention are elephant ears, queen palm, pygmy palm, dragon tree, red sister cordyline, Cyperus papyrus, and various ferns.

Local News 2009

"The cordyline, with all its variables and awkward shapes acts as a metaphor for the world," explains Smith, "while the Busy Lizzies seemed like an appropriate foil for the potentially oppressive slate."

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

A hydrangea walk leads to the kitchen garden, cutting beds, a maze of yews centered with a spiky cordyline in summer and the tennis court.

Greenwich Time Most Viewed 2009