Nearly everyone loves avocados. They can be eaten as dip, added to a sandwich, substituted for mayonnaise, or simply cut in half and eaten with a spoon. They are high in fat, but it is…
Even without access to a calendar, an experienced gardener can pinpoint the moment when summer begins to wind down into early autumn. Different feature trees will respond in their own unique ways. The texture of…
Pruning a fruit tree not only keeps it looking neat, but it can also make that tree much more productive. Of course, get things wrong and that pruning session could spell disaster for your fruit…
The dragon tree will grow its trunk first, it will flare out the middle, then it starts to form its next set of branching. From where it initially starts to branch…
The leaf structure will come out in the initial year and then you’ll start to see some trunk starting to form on these little branches.
Where the green reads the brown on the leaf right there on the dragon tree. As you can see just here, that’s where we cut them.
We get clients that ring up asking about stripping the leaves off. What happens is with the dragon tree, guys, if you do strip the leaves off…
Once it’s flowered, the dragon tree will not feed the original leaves. It stops feeding those leaves and it starts to focus on the small branches coming through on the sides.
I often get a phone call to say, “Okay, when’s my dragon tree going to flower?” Or, “When are the branches going to start coming out?”
I just want to show you quickly how we harvest these trees, and how we trim them right back. This goes with anyone that’s bought a Xanthorrhoea from us, and this is how we would…
I’m just going to show you what happens here when you’ve got secondary stage of a dragon tree’s lifespan.
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