I have a healthy Phormium Jubilee on the front porch. Leaves are getting so long, they drag on the ground. I elevated pot just a few inches, but leaves keep dragging.

1. What is one supposed to do about "long" leaves in pot?

2. When a Phormium is in the ground, rather than pot, how is this handled?

I've tried to do my homework before posting, but didn't find answer to "long leaf" question.
Here are some of the links I visited:

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/pl...?plant_id=3448

http://www.smgrowers.com/info/flax.asp

http://www.westernhort.org/Hotplants_2011.html

NOTES:
a. There is upright, partially upright, and arching. Mine is decidedly arching.

b. "Jubilee" is referred to as a"sport" of "Jester".

c. Climate is mild "Mediterranean" SoCalif, 1 mile from beach.
Presently in drought.

TIA for any wisdom.

HB

On 2016-03-02 16:11:05 +0000, Hypatia Nachshon said:

I have a healthy Phormium Jubilee on the front porch. Leaves are
getting so long, they drag on the ground. I elevated pot just a few
inches, but leaves keep dragging.

1. What is one supposed to do about "long" leaves in pot?

I would elevate the pot more and/or cut the tips off any offending,
healthy leaves at an angle and cut off sick, bent or unsightly leaves
as close to their origin as possible.

2. When a Phormium is in the ground, rather than pot, how is this handled?

Cut them off or shorten them at an angle. Don't be shy - new leaves
will appear soon enough.

I've tried to do my homework before posting, but didn't find answer to
"long leaf" question.
Here are some of the links I visited:

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/pl...?plant_id=3448

http://www.smgrowers.com/info/flax.asp

http://www.westernhort.org/Hotplants_2011.html

NOTES:
a. There is upright, partially upright, and arching.
Mine is decidedly arching.

b. "Jubilee" is referred to as a"sport" of "Jester".

c. Climate is mild "Mediterranean" SoCalif, 1 mile from beach.
Presently in drought.

TIA for any wisdom.

HB

On 3/2/2016 8:11 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
I have a healthy Phormium Jubilee on the front porch. Leaves are getting so long, they drag on the ground. I elevated pot just a few inches, but leaves keep dragging.

1. What is one supposed to do about "long" leaves in pot?

2. When a Phormium is in the ground, rather than pot, how is this handled?

I've tried to do my homework before posting, but didn't find answer to "long leaf" question.
Here are some of the links I visited:

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/pl...?plant_id=3448

http://www.smgrowers.com/info/flax.asp

http://www.westernhort.org/Hotplants_2011.html

NOTES:
a. There is upright, partially upright, and arching. Mine is decidedly arching.

b. "Jubilee" is referred to as a"sport" of "Jester".

c. Climate is mild "Mediterranean" SoCalif, 1 mile from beach.
Presently in drought.

TIA for any wisdom.

HB




Sunset's "Western Garden Book" -- a necessity for anyone gardening west
of the Rocky Mountains -- says to cut off older leaves that are looking
tired. They should be cut as close to the base as possible.

--
David E. Ross

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Antonin Scalia now fill the news media, his legacy was not
necessarily positive. See my "What Price Order, Mr. Justice Scalia?"
at http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_scalia_wrong.html.

On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 5:36:04 PM UTC-8, David E. Ross wrote:
On 3/2/2016 8:11 AM, Hypatia Nachshon wrote:
I have a healthy Phormium Jubilee on the front porch. Leaves are getting so long, they drag on the ground. I elevated pot just a few inches, but leaves keep dragging.

1. What is one supposed to do about "long" leaves in pot?

2. When a Phormium is in the ground, rather than pot, how is this handled?

I've tried to do my homework before posting, but didn't find answer to "long leaf" question.
Here are some of the links I visited:

http://www.smgrowers.com/products/pl...?plant_id=3448

http://www.smgrowers.com/info/flax.asp

http://www.westernhort.org/Hotplants_2011.html

NOTES:
a. There is upright, partially upright, and arching. Mine is decidedly arching.

b. "Jubilee" is referred to as a"sport" of "Jester".

c. Climate is mild "Mediterranean" SoCalif, 1 mile from beach.
Presently in drought.

TIA for any wisdom.

HB




Sunset's "Western Garden Book" -- a necessity for anyone gardening west
of the Rocky Mountains -- says to cut off older leaves that are looking
tired. They should be cut as close to the base as possible.

--
David E. Ross

While many tributes to the late Supreme Court Associate Justice
Antonin Scalia now fill the news media, his legacy was not
necessarily positive. See my "What Price Order, Mr. Justice Scalia?"
at http://www.rossde.com/editorials/edtl_scalia_wrong.html.

Thanks to both kind posters.

Leaves look fine; not tired; just too long. It seems "intuitively" that a Ph., at least one in the ground, would find some way to deal with long leaves that are touching the ground, but I don't know what's in its mind. Sorry I didn't get an erect one instead of arching.

HB


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