Cabbage Tree

This Cabbage tree (Cordyline) marks the end of the Pond Paddock side border and the beginning of what I've always called the Apple Tree Garden.

It's a favourite tree climb for my younger cats. Successive Moosey kittens have discovered their climbing claws zooming up it - and down it, carefully backwards.

This was one of the very first cordylines I planted, and it has always shed the old leaves from its trunk. It shelters a large patch of dark red leaved cannas. The nearest proper neighbours are climbing roses - Clair Matin leans over a rickety archway, and the spring flowering Fruhlingsgold spreads itself u and over a sturdy pink Camellia.

Reaching for the Sky

Lately I've been changing things in the Apple Tree Garden, and I've just noticed how huge this Cabbage tree has grown. To take a photograph of it I had to point the camera at the sky.

I've built a new path which pushes past the cannas and the trunk of the Cabbage tree, then turns to join the Laundry Path. It's a very sensible route, and I should have done it years ago.