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sherrieleighdecourcy

Hi all, can someone please help me to identify this plant? It was hidden beneath bamboo in the garden of a house we've just bought and I am hoping for some advice so that I can look into how to best care for it.

Wilderbeast

Morning it's a phormium of some type others on here will most likely know exactly what. Tough as old boots

sherrieleighdecourcy

Thanky you that has helped hugely. It's a New Zealand Flax - Phormium Tenax.

Wilderbeast said:

Morning it's a phormium of some type others on here will most likely know exactly what. Tough as old boots

Wilderbeast

Hi sherrieleighdecourcy only thing I watch for is that they are hoarders of slugs and snails which love to live in them so don't plant anything that's tasty to them near by 

Fairygirl

I check mine daily in spring and summer and remove the large snails who use it for shelter in the daytime 
If you've kept the bamboo, it will probably swamp it though, so it's best to move it if you want to keep it. If you can't get the whole thing out,  you can chop into them and remove a section to pot up and grow on. As long as it has some roots, it will be fine. I'd leave that until next month at least though, so that it's in good shape to do well. The variegated ones benefit from that anyway, or they tend to revert over time.
They make very good specimen plants.

Papi Jo

Re colour change, see this discussion: https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1033245/phorniums/p3