We have a giant (6ft high) phormium (new zealand plant with long spiky leaves) in our front garden. It died in last winters frost. The dead leaves are a pig to cut through because they are very tough and fibrous. Tried secateurs, saw, spade etc. As a last resort I tried my angle grinder, worked great, finished the job in a short time.
You need a chainsaw.
We call phormium tenax flax, although it's not in the genus linum.
That's what I used to cut off our dead phormiums.
Irritatingly, the ones I didn't dig up are now regrowing.
The Gardeners' Question Time solution for re-growth a few weeks ago was to cut them down to about a metre from the ground.
I thought they were dead, dead, dead and cut them off at ground level. The two I haven't got round to digging up are now putting up shoots. TBH, I'm not that bothered, since they were ugly bloody things anyway.
The angle grinder ?
Adrian
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