Planting cordylines grown in pot

[Syd_Rumpo]

We have a couple of cordyline's which have been growing in pots for the past 3 or 4 years.

I don't know the proper name for them, but they're not the giant ones that look like palm trees, they're only about 2 or 3 feet tall.

Now we have the bigger garden, we'd like to plant them out into the ground, so what we'd like to know, is when is the best time to do that?

Should we do it now (early October) so they're bedded in over the winter? Or wait for spring so they start the new growing season in the ground?

Do they need anything special added to the soil (bone meal or whatever)?

 

[r896neo]

I would wait. some of them are not fully hardy and at least in a pot you can move it inside if we got a sudden bought of snow etc.

Once established in the ground they will be better at surviving colder snaps but the shock of replanting might add complication. I would wait and plant it in spring adding lots of grit to improve drainage.

 

[Syd_Rumpo]

Only just noticed this, yes we decided to wait and will be planting soon.

 

[JohnD]

surely if they are a few feet tall now, they will grow much bigger, in time?

 

[r896neo]

depends on the variety. Some will grow to be 5m+ whereas some will only ever get to 4 feet. Most will remain smallish, its the cordyline austraulis that grows into the common tree type