Should I cut off the flower.

Cordylline plants always lose their bottom leaves and grow up. I looked at your picture and somehow I think it looks different from mine. But when the flower is dead and has dried up, of course you can cut it off. I have even cut a whole lot of the trunk off, as it grew too high, about 4m, so where I pruned it soon enough new shoots came and so you get a more bushy plant. I do have some pics of that, so I will place them for you.

I leave my flowers on and they become berries which are loved by long-tailed tits. Sitting outside on boxing day watching a flock of these 'balls of cotton-wool' birds feeding a few feet away is a trasured moment in my life.

Renee