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- noun Plural form of
cordyline .
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Examples
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News of other reviving cordylines twixt Trent and Tweed?
It's the green shoots of recovery - for cordyline palms anyway 2011
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I can see why some people find cordylines alien to the landscape of Captain Cook and the Brontes although come to think of it, they would probably have made Captain Cook feel at home.
It's the green shoots of recovery - for cordyline palms anyway 2011
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There are plenty of cordylines, gingers, golden palms, native trees and many other plants.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The way to protect them in the short term is to carefully tape up the fronds, making each plant into a tall tube shape, which will protect the vulnerable centres this is also the way to protect cordylines and phormiums.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Planted anew each spring, with cannas and musas, amaranthus and cordylines, this series of undulating beds between immaculate gravel paths mutates from anxiety-inducing neatness to riotous multi-coloured exuberance as the season progresses, only to be pulled up again and left bare until the following year.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Place your architectural plants such as cannas, cordylines or phormiums in the middle of the pot and fill the gaps in front with smaller flowering plants to complement.
icNewcastle 2009
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Many gardeners enjoy cordylines indoors during the winter, placing them in brightly lit areas of the home and reducing the amount of water they receive.
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Though I refer to cordylines as dagger-like, landscape designers call them architectural plants.
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Reaching 6 feet, it is the tallest of the three cordylines.
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He planted vibrant red cyclamens and cordylines, the latter chosen because they were "evergreen, strikingly sculptural, and they echoed the pattern of the spiky metal burglar-preventing fence at the top of the wall."
Peak Energy 2008
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