Sunday 7th June 09

The Cordyline tree in my garden is out in flower. My husband brought this home from work about 15 years ago. It was in a little pot and I thought it would make an ideal structural patio plant. It kept growing so a couple of years later we planted it in the corner of the garden. It came up to about the middle rung of the fence then. It's now about 20 feet tall. The first time it flowered, about 7 years ago, it only had one flower, sticking out the top like a white Xmas tree. this year it has 12 flowers.