This was super helpful, thank you! We bought a house with a couple of neglected New Zealand flax and I had no idea how to tackle them. I had seen some with the ends clipped at an angle and thought this was how to deal with them so I’m glad you have said not to and why! 🙂

really great video - very informative and well made, you clearly have lots of experience! Also what a transformation, looks amazing - thank you for the top tips on phormiums.

This was excellent learning thank you

Excellent many thanks.

Great video. I have 4 of these in my front yard. It took me a few days to clean them up. I never knew how to properly maintain them; now I do :) Thank you!

It’s a lot of work to properly maintenance the phormiums, great to see you being thorough with them, not just a pretty landscaper 😜👍🏻.

Followed your advice and have taken back my garden! The other plants are much happier now (I guess). Thank you

I could have done with some of those mature rooted pullouts, save having to buy plants Great job!

Great video and lovely result!

Great video.. thank you for sharing your knowledge

Great information. Thank you.

Grate work guys Looking good what an improvement by just taken out the dead and reducing the height it makes. its nice to have bit off change from hard landscaping now and then keep up good work

Mine are like 9ft now mine are black burgundy type they flower every year and the ones I pull out I pot up and give to friends my front is full now. At the time the soil was solid clay and ten years on I can just put my hand in and the soil just breaks up nice good soil

Really useful thank you so much :)

Excellent video thank you! Doing a job involving this exact thing tomorrow.

Great video thank you

Thank you !

My gardener doesn’t do anything like this, good help is hard to find!

Brilliant thanks.....Do the flower stalk grow again next year?

Hi, I have a few Flax plants in my front yard. I just moved into a new home and I noticed the tips of the plants are turning brown and drying up. Any recommendations on regular watering or maintaining them so the tips won’t dry up? I live in California and summers tend to get hot 🥵

Thanks for this video. It was really helpful! I have a big one to tackle next week. Is there a best time of the year to do this or is any time ok? Presumably after it's been raining, it's easier to pull out of the ground.

Hi! I have one of these and it’s growing a bit out of control. Is there a specific time of year to do this?

Any ideas what to do with the leaves once cut off as they don’t shred very well!

Use a sharp knife instead of secateurs, and cut on a downwards angle away from the center of the leaf fan. Way faster and easier

Philosophy: I always find it slightly ironic to hear of the need to “tidy” plants to ensure their survival. Flax has survived without our intervention for millions of years, and has learned to live with its own dead leaves - which eventually decay into necessary fertiliser for its own roots. It is the human concept of tidiness, this desire to clean up dead material, that drives ideas like that expressed in this video. But, yes, I also understand and enjoy a tidy garden. And so we act out the tidiness-for-the-good-of-the-plant scenario more to improve our mental well-being, while probably undermining the well-being of the plant… There’s the irony. Here in NZ, flax plants grow untended, in swamps, in huge numbers on motorway embankments, can be found growing in lowlands to highlands of remote inaccessible areas where never a gardener goes near them - and guess what? They make it. Year after year.

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why oh why dont you wear gloves?

People pretending they know what they’re talking about. 😂

Too much to work

these plants are bloody annoying and should be listed as a WEED