WHAT TO DO WITH FROZEN CORDYLINES 🤔
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- This video is about what to do with cordylines, after a big freeze. Many cordylines have suffered up and down the country because of the freeze and has knocked them back. Please watch and find out how to save them and hopefully get them growing again in the spring🌴🌞
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I've lost some very mature Cordylines in the this last harsh winter. They were years old and were very tall trees, but are now sprouting again from lower down having removed the soft rotten top trunks. Very sad but encouraging to see new growth again.
That's great news James that they are re sprouting again. Sorry bowt losing all the height of the old stems. They should grow faster with a bigger root system. Pick out the strongest stem and cut away the others. That depends if you want a multi trunked cordyline from the base. But they get massive and take up alot of room. But they do look impressive being multi trunked.
Really Helpful, I’m so upset to loose such a beautiful plant but knowing it might come back is nice to hear.
Talia I'm upset to will see what happens in the next month or so. See the proper extent of the damage, hopefully it will come back for you
That's probably the best video I've seen that explains what exactly to do. Thank you! 👏👏
Thanks Sam I did this video a while ago now, some of my stems are still solid and a few have turned to mush. However I am hopeful they will re grow soon.
Thank you. A very helpful video. Hopefully I can rescue my potted cordyline, which originally belonged to my Mum. It has great sentimental value to me. All the leaves are dead, due to the cold weather, but I'll cut it back, once the weather improves and hopefully it may recover, with a bit of luck ! ☺
Fingers 🤞 for you Carol just be patient, hopefully it will re grow for you, all depends on how big it was plus size of the root ball it has and how long it was frozen for.
I’ve lost them in the past and didn’t know that if the base was firm they could survive.
This year I bought three new ones. I’ve put fleece covers on them to protect them (we’ve had frost already). Didn’t want to have wasted my money. As a pensioner I need to be canny).
Hi Margaret hopefully this year it won't be as cold. Plus I think they didn't like the fact it didn't get above freezing for a week. Just to cold 🥶 for them. I lost a lot of plants last year, but we learn and try and care for them as much as we can. 🌴🌞
Thanks for this videos! Ours are all completely battered and we didn’t know what to do haha! Will leave til the end of the month!
No problem, I would definitely leave them just for now with the cold front moving in next week. Hopefully they will regrow for you in the spring when we finally get some warmer weather
our local Northern UK library ( Milnrow ) has one of the very few survivors
a beautiful massive mature palm
25+ feet high, nearly 100 years old, massive thick trunk, splits into 6 large palms half way up, 6 massive healthy crowns
and guess what ?
local council got a grant to modernize its gardens around the borough
so it's being chopped down along with all the other well established shrubs and bushes
to be replaced with mainly a low maintenance paved area and some dwarf conifers..
as the money needs to be spent on something, so goodbye beautiful garden.
Wow I bet that is a sight seeing a cordyline that big. I never understand council's cutting and removing well established areas and replace them with rubbish, I guess that is the world we live in at the moment
Cheers. My garden (and tropical in particular) has taken one hell of a beating this winter. Even after covering and protecting a lot of stuff, the cold and frost has still got through.
Hi, I know especially a pain when you think you are getting somewhere. Go to all the extra steps to try and get plants through and the frost still gets to them. Hopefully you haven't lost to many and the re grow for you🤞
Great advice, was thinking of removing plants completely due to frost damage but will keep them and see how it goes
Hopefully if my back is OK. I will be doing another video shortly of what i think will survive. Just need it to stop raining now, hopefully all the frosts have gone to. Then we can see if they will re grow.
My big beautiful cordyline which bloomed for the first time last year were annihilated by the continuous subzero conditions. I chopped them all back to healthy bark yesterday as i couldn't stand looking at them in that state anymore. Hopefully they regrow this summer. All my hebe's died too 😢 Sad times.
Hi I chopped all my cordylines back yesterday, some I've had to dig up and bin. My here's have been decimated as well. Hopefully the spring weather will be kind and everything gets growing again for you
Thought id lost all mine but earlier noticed tiny shoots springing up. Not actually from the trunk but a few inches to the side. these are obviously shooting directly from the roots. Happy days 😎
That's brilliant not all is lost, I've had a few shoot so far. Will leave then in the ground they ain't harming anyone, plenty of time for them to start again 👌
Thank you so much!
Hi Mary thank you I have have done my latest video on the cordylines. How to remove damage.
Thank you for your advice on cordelines I found this to be a great help, I have large plant that has been damaged by frost and had no idea what to do. Thanks again.
Fingers 🤞 Ron they will make a recovery. They are expensive to replace a large cordyline. The weather this winter has hit all cordylines I see driving round. It will look a mess over the next few months but hopefully roll on spring and they will re shoot or worse case senerio they will re grow from the base, be positive I'm trying.
Omg noo I’ve just cut mine off I’m devastated it was my baby it was lovely and big this has never happened before to mine I really hope it grows back 😢
Really helpful thanks
Cheers glad it helped you, everything is different this year, its a constant learning curve 👍
I bring any in pots indoors on nighta below zero and those planted in the ground tie up to protect to crown
Great advice, I tried my best but I think it was just to cold this winter, some of my cordylines are trying to pull through and started growing again.
My 4 stemmed cordyline suffered frost damage. It was about 14/15 feet high. Just noticed one stem has 5 new shoots and another stem 6 new shoots halfway up the trunk, it is also shooting from the base. As it was the focal point of my garden I was sad because I thought I’d lost it, but now can’t wait to see how it develops.
That is brilliant great news. You will have a fantastic multi headed cordyline. You can always remove some of the shoots if it gets to big. My cordylines are still deciding if they want to shoot yet.
Out of seven of my cordyline plant of which I cut right down along the main stork, to my surprise five have started to grow very well but from the bottom. They are all very healthy with this great summer 2023 thank fully. I am very happy I did try this as many people said throw them away and start again with new plants as they will not come back.
Haha and now you can tell them otherwise. They should grow a hell of a lot faster due to having a bigger root system, glad my advice helped you out 👍 🌴 🌞
@@mattsuktropicalgarden Yes Thank you.
Thanks. I've watched quite a few videos tonight, and yours has been most reassuring.
I think I have green cordylines (my late mother planted them). There are four 'trunks' from the ground, about four metres high, and the tops are bare on two, and the other two look bad.
I'll wait another couple of weeks before I do anything, though I have no idea how to get to the tops...
Hi Toria. Such a shame when they are so big. This happened back in 2010s big freeze unfortunately all went back to the ground and re grew multi stemed. Hopefully yours will re sucker where they are more hard wood on stem. Good luck 👍
Just use a step ladder , or if really high lean a long ladder against the trunks , if you’re not good on ladders get someone in to do it !
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Thank you so much
No problem Lavine hopefully your cordylines will recover, I have done another video of how I chopped them down if that will help you at all.
@@mattsuktropicalgarden Will definitely check it out, thanks 😊
Sorry to see your red cordylines take so much damage, Matt. I agree with you, they should just be left until spring. Hopefully, they will re-grow new shoots lower down and become nice multistemmed plants 🤞
Yes Peter I agree hopefully, as in my other video we had -8oC for 4 nights and didn't get above freezing. Other people have commented I don't have any height above them, so something to look into microclimate. It's all a learning curve what plants can actually tolerate 🌴
@@mattsuktropicalgarden We got down to at least -7°C, maybe slightly lower, but luckily only for one night. We had quite a few -5°C and -6°C nights too and it was barely above freezing most of the time during the freeze. My cordylines were still pretty small and in pots so I brought them in until the cold weather passed.
I should of done the same with my potted ones but can't lift em at moment. We shall see if they re grow. I personally think it makes gardening a bit more interesting, goin through the seasons. Plus the sudden weather changes because this is the first cold snap we have had really in 5-6 years
I cut my dead stuff off.... 🙈
Shall I just cover the crown if we get another bad freeze as I cut off all the leaves
Hi, back garden ones all frozen but front garden big and perfect! A bit confusing but I guess the front garden was more protected.
Hi Sheila yeah there been alot of hit and miss where some have and haven't survived. Depends on the microclimate around them, protection and warmth from buildings. It's always a shame when something so big and beautiful gets taken down because of the weather. Hopefully they will grow back for you .
Cheers for the video, mine looks like the one at the bottom of your garden all leaves fallen off. It was a beaut too got it to about 4ft! So was sad when that happened but every one's seemed to of frozen like them
Hi Gemma I was gutted about the big one at the bottom of the garden. I wanted that to get a good canopy on it. Hey ho nope its a gonna, its such a shame I've seen loads of them decimated everywhere. Hopefully they will re grow for you, just be patient. Always good sayin that, cus I've been very patient so far and keep failing.
@Matts UK Tropical Garden I'm gonna sit and watch it till summer ☀️ literally everyday I visit that blooming tree haha
Yeah I will be the same once the last frost has happened I will be watching mine like a hawk to. 😎
Nice video so you can do a follow up and show if the same plants recovered etc
Hi Pablo I will definitely do a follow up video, once they are growing away again 👍
@@mattsuktropicalgarden cool
Damned, my red star was just like yours, it had secretion and started to stink... I paniced and removed everything because I was afraid of rot to spread to the other plants... what a mistake I did :( I'll know for the next time, I'll go with a cordyline Charlie Boy for spring.
I know disappointing losing them especially if they have a bit of height on them, doin it my method doesn't always work but worth a go. If you want summit really hardy try a yucca plant I am working on a video at the moment to show the difference between the plants 👍
I’ve just done the same I’m gutted I wish I’d seen this video before I’ve cut all mine I loved them and never had this problem before 😢
Hi Michelle the problem this year it was just to cold for them and the prolonged freeze where it didn't get above 0°C for days on end. Spring won't be to far away get this week out of way and hopefully we should start to see them hopefully re grow slowly
Bought a house last summer with some of these in the garden, one green and one red. Over winter the leaves went brown and I was able to pull them all off last week with the gentlest of tugs. The top of the main stems are very soft and squashy, do I just cut the squashy bit off stem where it gets hard and leave it, or is there anything else I need to do to help it re-grow? Thanks!
Thanks for this video. My big green potted cordy is suffering in Scotland. Only the bottom leaves though, the middle is still upright and green. For now. Should I just remove the limp bottom leaves or go for a complete chop down to the soil?
Any suggestions how to avoid this happening in first place? I hear trying up and covering with fleece when the frosts are due could help? 🤔
Hi jen if the middle is upright and still pushing out in the middle I would just leave it be for now. Especially with the cold weather to return. I actually put a bit of fleece over the ones by my house and they still went. It's just one of them things I've seen loads that have collapsed and only a few still standing. Just luck I guess. Wouldn't worry bowt chopping them down just yet incase we still get a freeze. Hope this helps 🙂
Thank you so much for this video so helpful my beautiful red cordyline is frost damaged and mushy on the crown, A bit smelly too but trunk seems quite firm. I had no ideas what to do as only found it today. I removed the mushy leaves and covered the crown (instinctive really) but honestly thought there would be no hope. Fingers crossed next month I can cut it back and it will survive. It’s about 6 yrs old been in a pot till this year was doing really well then we had that heavy frost lasting around a week. I’m gutted 😢I see some sites recommend copper manganite. What are your thoughts?
Hi Sheila I know it bads news all round about cordylines. People have grown them for years and have good height on them. The prolonged period of frost as you said for days was just to much for them unless they were protected somehow. I don't know anything about adding copper to the cordyline but give it a go if you think it will help. Since you have cut the tops of just keep em protected from the frosts we will have soon. Hopefully they will recover for you 🤞
@@mattsuktropicalgarden thank you, just learned today my daughter in laws cordylines badly damaged too, not as bad as mine so have shared your video. Thank for taking time to post this advice 💕
No problem Sheila just hope they will re grow. I have had loads of damage this year, need some help to get my garden sorted this year 😮💨
Cord australis seems to be the hardiest. Charlie boy as well.
I wish my were hardy. I've been for a walk round where I live and pretty much all of the cordylines have suffered where they haven't been kept close to a house. I just think to cold for to many days has done the damage
Don't chuck them out, they'll regrow more than likely.
I'm not, I'm very patient, it's all a learning curve, hopefully it will make them abit more hardier in the future when they grow back. I'm just upset because I wanted them to really grow for the sky this year
Thank you so much for this video, I moved into a house with lots of these plants and the frost has taken its toll, a gardener advised me to just let the leaves fall off naturally and they will regrow but doesn't sound like that's true based on this video, if I cut the plant to a stem where its not soft anymore, do you know how quickly they regrow?
Hi Marc the leaves will fall of naturally mine have started already. It is hard to say how long it will take to regrow, it's just a matter of patience. They should regrow from a side shoot or from the base. Most of the cordylines where I live have all collapsed and there were some smashing tall ones as well.
@Matts UK Tropical Garden yep mine were really tall, such a shame as they were the main feature of the garden :( ill give them more time to see if they regrow from the head, until what month would you give it before just cutting the head off? Don't want to be hasty if it may grow back lol, the stem at the top only felt slightly soft but all the leaves are brown (used to be green)
Thank you for all your help, I've subscribed so I can learn more from you :)
Thanks Marc. If they were really tall you might be lucky. Stronger root system and much thicker stem. You should she new growth pushing next month really. Fingers🤞 they will survive for you.
Hi, was just wondering if this worked for you? I left mine to see if they recovered but they havent so I'm going to cut of the top part of the trunk which has gone soft (until the trunk is hard) and see what happens, happy to receive any further advice but guessing this is the only thing I can do now :)
Sorry Marc thought I replied mustn't of pressed send. Yeah the dead one in the my pot that spear pulled that a did cut has re shooted from the base. The ones I cut down are starting to show some fatter buds so hopefully will pop soon and start growing. If I was you I would cut it down to where it was hard wood which should shock the plant and make it either re shoot from the bottom or grow buds to start growing, hope this helps you out
@@mattsuktropicalgarden thank you so much, I'll do that 😀
Thankyou 🌈🏕️
No problem Maria. Hopefully they will recover for you 🌞
@@mattsuktropicalgarden well I thought my red was done ,but it will be ok 🏕️🙏🏼
That's great 👍. Mine are all toast apart from 2 which surprisingly have survived by the house
I’ve read to wrap in bubble wrap when there will be a bad frost, some of mine have dropped and wondering whether to wrap to prevent more damage 🤔🤔 also thinking of wrapping ones before -8 tonight!
Hi James if they have dropped they are damaged. I would still just wrap the top foot just to stop any penetrative frost from getting on at the top of them.
@@mattsuktropicalgarden thank you 😊
I had 2x5m tall beautiful cordylines which didn’t survive this winter. They now have white/orange slime flux right down to the base and it’s mushy - can I still chop it down at the base, with the hope of re growth? Even though the base isn’t hard wood? Thanks!
Yes I would chop it down now to where there is hard wood on the stem. I'm doing mine next weekend. Some of my cordylines are dead, soft mushy throughout. Hopefully some will survive and re grow like yours
Thanks for this video. I have two of these planted in the ground about 8ft tall but the leaves have all gone brown and the wind today has blown all dead leaves off. Do i need to do the same thing with bigger ones... Cut back were the squingyness stops and its more woody?
Hi Amit, yeah hopefully the last frost will be nearly here. Then cut back to where they are woody, hopefully they will grow back for you
@@mattsuktropicalgarden thanks Matt i appreciate the advice! It would be ashame to pull them out as they are so well established. Just wasnt sure what to do with them as they have lost all leaves after the frost damage and wind today. Fingers crossed they come back, will give it a go. Thanks again
No problem will be a shame if they have to re grow from the base. Just be patient with them.
Hi Matt, me again. Ive cut the down a bit.... Does the whole of it need to be woody? Theres a bit of softness in the middle but didnt want to cut it back too much. Thanks again
I've left a little bit of mush about half cm. Can you feel nodes coming out of the stem
Matt, some of my cordylines here in Oregon are in similar shape... would you recommend that I mark the spot to chop now, or can I wait until after final frost to figure it out?
I would definitely wait Shawn. Reason is if you chop of to where they are solid now and you get more frost there will be no protection and more than likely you will lose the cordyline completely. Hope this helps mate
@@mattsuktropicalgarden Oh I definitely heard you say that loud and clear in the vid, but what I meant is, do I need to mark the spot now for later reference?
No Shawn just wait till the last frost day. After that just feel the stem and cut where it is hard, not soft. Fingers 🤞 for you the will re grow from the side nodes, if they don't they should re shoot from the base hopefully. Its been a disappointing year for the death of cordylines
@@mattsuktropicalgarden Thanks Matt, I appreciate it! Mine's pretty tall so I'm hoping I'll be able to keep most of that height
No problem, yeah you watched it grow and they look so stunning when they have height and the stems look so tropical
I thought someone damaged my cordyline, I came home and they looked decapitated. Can I cover them next season with trash bags?
Hi Leo depends which type of cordyline you have, if it's the green australis they might collapse back to the ground and re shoot, they do not like sub zero temps for days on end
Just the info I was looking for . Mine have suffered similar for the first time . I can not believe as we have had frosts before and they seemed to survive .
What do you reckon a full recovery will take in terms of time ,as I am tempted to replace them . N Ireland .
It could take a few months for them to throw out new buds for growth. It will be alot faster to replace them. But
The new growth once they actually get goin will grow stronger and faster because they will have a bigger root system. Hope that helps, I will be doing another video on them in a week or so
@@mattsuktropicalgarden Thanks for reply , I will give them a chance to recover .
Mine look the same all my red ones and one green cordyline and flopped over and gone mushy deverstated. 😕
Hi J B yeah it's not been a kind winter for the cordylines, especially if there are getting established. Finger 🤞 for you they will re grow and be stronger.
First time I’ve had this with my cordylines. Totally gone. So I just saw off at the wooded bit at the bottom for new growth?
Hi yeah where the stem finally gets to hard wood instead of mush cut it of there, hopefully it should re shoot. If it doesn't it should re grow from the base of the plant. Dont cut it of yet because we could be in for more bad weather and then that would definitely kill it off. Hope that helps 👍
@@mattsuktropicalgarden cheers thanks. Thought they’d gone for good as never happened before
It depends, the red ones can go down to bowt -4/-6oC. The green ones can go to -8oC the problem we have had this year was the fact we were to cold and didn't get above freezing for days, so the ice got in and killed the crowns off, hence all the cordyline floppy tops.
Can I check you mean to cut the stem down to the woody bit? I've lost all of mine. The top is soft and wet, so do I cut down until I get to the woody bit?
Hi Jackie yeah just cut down to where it is woody. I had to chop mine virtually all the way down unfortunately. I have done a recent video of me doin mine, if that helps you at all.
@@mattsuktropicalgarden thanks, I'll give it a go
HELP! my Cordyline, having been butchered by the frost, has had babies at the bottom of the old rotten trunk, how do I get the babies separated from their mum and into new pots to grow? What sort of compost do they need?
Hi Lee you can propagate cordylines but not when small. They won't have enough root on them. They grow from seed. Unless you want a multi trunked cordyline you will have to eventually cut a few of the new shoots away. Hope this helps.
I missed this video 😢. I took the leaves out and we still have winter. Was that a mistake?
It should be okay, we have had the worst of winter now, is the top still hard with growth or has it gone squishy and gone down the stem
Hi there, I am new to your channel. My cordaline look dead. Should I chop them today and start again 😢x
Hi Rachael thank you for watching my channel your support is appreciated. If they look dead I would cut them down to where there is hard wood, cut at a slight again above a hard node. Hope that helps you out
@@mattsuktropicalgarden that does help. Although I'm gutted I'm hoping they will survive. Many thanks x
No problem I'm gutted to after this winter, it has destroyed my garden
Those red cordylines weren't covered? So, the only hardy variety for us zone pushers, is the green cordyline australis? Do you know by any chance how hardy the Torbay dazzler is?
No I didn't cover them up unfortunately. The green ones are supposed to be hardier down to -8oC ish but I think the problem was that is was freezing for over a week here. The torbay dazlers are more prone to the frost than the red ones. Have you covered yours up?
@@mattsuktropicalgarden l live in north parts of Greece, I have my cordylines in a zone 8b area in the ground but just the green variety. They have survived easily last year's freeze with 4 days of -8c at night and 0 during the day! This year until now the winter is missing ! 😂 I hope it will not come as I have many tropical plants outside such as monsteras and dracaena marginata! I am really pushing the limits of those plants! 😁
I think you are pushing with those 2 plants especially. The cordylines should be fine if the weather warms up during the day. The ice will defrost enough just so it won't hopefully damage them. Why do us gardeners always try and push the limits with our crazy weather 👍
Are in Birmingham?
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Why Carn t it warm up
I wish it would, summer is round the corner 😩 👍
Put some garbage begs plastic around to protect...
That's a good idea keep them dry and a mini microclimate for them thumb 👍. Is that what you have done?
I covered mine with bed sheets and a 45 gallon drum due to the size, alas it made no difference both frozen and brown 2 lovely species gone 😢
When I started reading was actually thinking you got them through, even with all that extra protection I just think it was the fact it was below freezing for so long 🤔
Iv cut mine down already, maybe premature? See what happens
Fingers crossed they will re grow once the weather warms up