Plant in full to part day coastal sun or light shade and give regular irrigation. It is cold hardy to 25° F and seems less bothered by the snails and slugs that disfigure other Ti Plant cultivars in our California gardens.

Cordyline fruticosa 'Soledad Purple' is sometimes sold as Cordyline stricta 'Soledad Purple' but really appears to be a form of Ti Plant, Cordyline fruticosa (or C. terminalis as it has long previously been known), which is a plant so long in cultivation that its original native distribution is unknown, but believed to be native from a region extending from Bangladesh, to Mainland Southeast Asia, South China, Taiwan, Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Northern Australia. Luen Miller of Monterey Bay has commented that this plant is possibly the same as the Cordyline fruticosa cultivar 'Glauca' and notes that it is "a tough, old-style landscape variety that takes sun and some drought and frost to 25 F with minimal damage."

Our plants from Rancho Tissue Technologies who named the plant to honor their parent company, Rancho Soledad Nursery. We grew this interesting and attractive plant from 2009 until 2012 and only stopped when it became plentiful from other nurseries. 

The information about Cordyline fruticosa 'Soledad Purple' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.