Wind damaged Cordyline

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I know I should probably cut all the wind/frost damaged leaves off but it is going to look so odd. I’m also worried it will allow water to sit in the crown and it will start rotting from the top down.
Will leaves regrow?

Sympathies - most of mine are a right mess. With some I’ve removed all the leaves to prevent them after and rot. Most are regrowing from the top but I don’t know what they are going to look like. I’d leave it and hope! It’s still early.

Be grateful, DH bought one when I wasn’t looking, I hate it with a passion.

It needs pruning and I have very new, very sharp secateurs, be a shame if anything happened to it. << whistles disingenuously>> 😂

Thanks, I wasn’t sure if the did grow from the top after losing leaves, I will be brave and prune then.

I quite like them, I’ve actually planted one in every house I’ve lived in

We have 3. Thru all turned brown this year and am not sure why. I was advised to chop the top off the stems just below where the wood is softened and am assured they will regrow.

Thanks, I will give it a go, it can’t make it look any worse than it does now!

There are quite a few in various gardens near me, all looking pretty sad, most of them bucket-kickingly sad in fact. I put it down to the -12 frost we had before Christmas.

I lost one of my cordylines this year and have noticed that loads of them in other people’s gardens have not survived over winter too. Choysias have suffered too. It happens. In contrast red robins all seem to be thriving everywhere I look.