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Originally Posted by eyefi
thank you for the reply
i'm in zone 8b in yorkshire in the uk. it's not very humid. the site is sheltered west facing.
i think you are probably looking at the Cordyline, it's happy in this climate. if not maybe the Trachycarpus or the Chamaerops again all quite happy here.
i would tend to agree with you regarding the light deprivation, other examples i see have shorter stems and that could be why it's lost its other leaves. i'm not sure whether to remove this leaf and take away the support so the new growth is free and the plant can put it's energy into new growth or should i keep it for as long as possible. it seems quite happy apart from this. the new leaf, despite the rubbish weather and temps has grown a few inches in a week.
we still have a risk of frost at the moment, so i'm gonna keep it out of the ground for a few more weeks yet.
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Eyefi you should talk to Mark hall hes a UK grower of Maurellii i know from other threads that people do grow it there but iv gleaned from those threads that it never gets to the mature hight it could in a dryer climate not to discourage you try by all means i have Ae Ae growing in the middle of the Mohave desert and people told me it couldn't be done the more some one tells me that the more likely i am to flip them off LOL iv said this before and all probably say it until the day i die if one tunes in to there plants they will tell you every thing you need to know about whats happening to them and what they want we all talked about this guy in Germany that grows Maurellii
some of the bigest if ever seen so if he can so can you