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Clippings, shredded foliage (except Phormium leaves - they end up in garden waste at the local pit) and shredded thin branches get mixed into the compost.
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Hardly visible in the dark green pot, former home of the rosemary topiary forest that died in our harsh winter, is a new red Phormium with sweet peas in training up bamboo stakes.
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This area also had vast swamps lined with flax (Phormium tenax) which was harvested until the 1940s when the land was drained for farms.
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At the time of European discovery in 1774, Norfolk Island was covered almost entirely by mixed-species subtropical rainforest, although the steep cliffs and highest slopes of Mt Pitt supported a distinct community of shrubs, herbs and climbers, dominated by the New Zealand flax (Phormium tenax).
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Clippings, shredded foliage except Phormium leaves - they end up in garden waste at the local pit and shredded thin branches get mixed into the compost.
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Only two, velvet grass Holcus lanatus and New Zealand flax Phormium tenax are presently any in danger of growing out of control.
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A "kete" is a bag woven from the long leaves of the New Zealand flax plant Phormium spp.
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The distinctive marks which characterise it as not English are the occasional Ti palms, which have a very tropical appearance, and the luxuriance of the Phormium tenax.
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The robes of New Zealand flax (_Phormium tenax_), and especially the feather robes, evince their aptitude and taste.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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By this ship orders were received from the Admiralty to rig the cutter with rope manufactured from the New Zealand hemp (Phormium tenax) but there was a considerable difficulty in procuring enough even for a boom-sheet.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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