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Plant identification needed

Davey MartinDavey Martin Posts: 10
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I recently moved house and have this plant in my garden that is starting to grow rather large... I am unsure what it is thus I have no idea how to maintain it/control it's size. Anybody able to help? It's like a large spider plant I guess.
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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 6,971

    I think you would need to load up a photo before anyone can really help.

    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Dave MorganDave Morgan Posts: 3,123

    Need a picture davey, click on the green tree icon on the toolbar to post a picture. It doesn't work from mobiles though.

  • Davey MartinDavey Martin Posts: 10

    image

     Sorry, I had put a link in my original post but it was automatically removed.

  • Davey MartinDavey Martin Posts: 10

    Is it called a Yucca?

  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Looks like a Yucca but may be a cordyline or phormium.  No matter which, maintenance is easy - none!  Well, you should to remove dead leaves from the bottom.

    Unfortunately there is no way to control their size other than by removal and replacement.  If you trim the leaves shorter they will look awful and slowly die back from the point where you cut the tips off, so avoid that at all costs.

    Sometimes they throw off side shoots or suckers appear close to the base and these can be rooted and used to replace the mother plant when it is removed.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    It looks like a cordyline, has it got a thick stem that looks like a trunk? All the yuccas ive seen have wider leaves image
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 82,800

    It might be simpler to move the shed image

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Certainly would, Dove!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • bekkie hughesbekkie hughes Posts: 5,294
    Im with Dove! I have one which is a little smaller and it was a nightmare to remove the babies which had sprouted, from what i can tell from the one in my garden they are pretty jard to kill so you should be able to remove all the extra bits and take it back to one stem and its greenery without much worry, the bits you take of may well root too image
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391

    Or even cut the whole thing down to the ground.  It will almost certainly send up new shoots and will take up to 10 years to get that large again.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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