Cordylines are undergoing something of a revival. JAMES ARMITAGE admires their sharp sophistication and relates the results of the RHS cordyline trial. SOME GROUPS of plants have, over the years, come to be perceived by some as rather 'naff'. Recentlyhowever, a resurgence of interest in tropical bedding and an honest enjoyment of bold colours and shapes have seen plants such as cannas and dahlias welcomed back to the fold of the fashionable. The genus Cordyline is also enjoying renewed popularity and is being imported from huge Italian nurseries by the lorry load. The RHS trial of Cordyline in containers, held at RHS Garden Wisley in 2003, offered the opportunity to study and evaluate one of the most useful and striking, but perhaps underrated, ofgarden plants.
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