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Cordyline australis (Manx Palm) removed, nothing growing well where it was

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BigDahliaFan · 14/06/2024 10:35

We had the Manx Palm removed about 4 years ago along with some other straggly trees/shrubs and replanted the entire garden.

Everything is thriving apart from in the patch where the palm was, and there are shoots of the palm coming up now that I have to dig up. Do I just have to accept that nothing will grow well there and plant something shallow rooted and keep on digging up the new shoots.

I put an autumn flowering cherry there so I could see it from the kitchen window.. and it's struggling. Other trees I put in elsewhere are fine.

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echt · 15/06/2024 22:47

I read that it can survive fire, so maybe the rhizomes are very persistent. It isn't one of those antipodean plants that suppresses other nearby.

Maybe do a huge dig to get out rhizomes and put in new soil?

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