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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?”

Here we have it, Xanthorrhoea Glauca in their natural environment. Those tress, you can see that the bushfires haven’t ever hit these trees.

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…

Here we have it, the Xanthorrhoea Glauca in their natural environment

I’m just going to show you what happens here when you’ve got secondary stage of a dragon tree’s lifespan.

I’m just going to show you what happens here when you’ve got secondary stage of a dragon tree’s lifespan.

You can say here our dragon tree has flowered. What it’s doing now, it’s taking it to the next phase of its life.

You can see that this tree here, this bottle tree is quite bare.