Part 1 of 2. Note also see my 2 earlier videos from 26 Nov 2011 and 17 Jan 2012, featuring palms in my garden. Cordyline australis growing in its native country of New Zealand, Christchurch City is at 43 degrees South latitude. Although the basic wild form is green and there are bronze and red variants (some perhaps occurring naturally on occasion) Often young seedlings are coloured but revert to green within a year or 2. There are also various other forms which have been cultivated that are more attractive and used as foliage plants both in gardens, and indoors in very cold areas. Here is one of mine, a yellow variegated form. Note this plant should be much taller by now but was almost killed when a much larger plant blew over on it, and took a long time to recover. It got such a shock it temporarily went almost all green, but the variegated edges have since returned. Typical cheap household plastic buckets with drainage holes drilled cost like a dollar whereas 10 litre plant pots cost . Blue resists UV light more and lasts many years even exposed to full sun, I know, I lived in the Australian outback for many years ! (red was the worst, would fade to almost white then get brittle and crack, and Red cars in Australia get faded buggered paint within just a few years, if they park outside). Regarding PVR plant copyright, why did I buy them in the first place ? Because they were on sale at such super-duper price reduction that I bought some to give them a try. If I wanted ...
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