Rosie found a hedgehog at the front door and was very puzzled by it. It was nearly as big as her.We nipped in and brought out some dog meat for it. Rosie got very brave then! She kept clear of the hedgehog but proceeded to eat the food very quickly.
I hope that we have a nest of them around. When we first moved here we often saw baby ones about and somewhere have a photo of our previous dog just looking at a mother and her three or four babies at our front door.
We put this in a few years back when it was about as big as a spindly daffodil plant and it has grown to about six feet high now. This year it looks as if it is going to flower which is a lovely surprise as I thought it was just a foliage plant.
It is an even bigger surprise that it has grown at all considering what it is rooted in! When we were renovating the house we had a pile of broken rubble, plasterboard etc and we made a pile of them and put a circle of bricks round them and a thin layer of soil on top with the vague idea of a raised bed for Alpine plants.
I think it is a Cordyline?
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I've got one of those plants, it's common name is New Zealand Flax, it' proper name is Phormium. In NZ, they make baskets and chair seats from the leaves, in much the same way as we use cane and willow!
You could grow anything anywhere!
If the flowers are orange and looks like a crane's head it is a Bird of Paradise plant or Strelitzia! Very striking flower.
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