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No matter how large—or small—your landscape is, Amazing Red New Zealand Flax (Phormium 'Amazing Red') adds stylish architectural texture and incredibly rich red color. Keep it in containers on your balcony, or grow a modern mass planting along your patio.


Phormium tenax 'Platt's Black'

Phormium 'Amazing Red' is an evergreen perennial. This plant has many swordlike, stiffly vertical leaves in a fan pattern, reaching 2' tall. Leaves are reddish brown. Flowers are insignificant and bloom infrequently. It does better with occasional watering once it's established.


Phormium 'Amazing Red' Boething Treeland Farms in 2021 Amazing red, Perennial shrubs, Types

Ideal for small gardens, Phormium 'Amazing Red' is a compact variety of New Zealand Flax with upright, narrow, sword-like, dark reddish-brown leaves. Robust, this evergreen perennial is topped in summer with a dramatic flowering stalk bearing panicles of tubular, red flowers which attract nectar-seeking birds.


Phormium 'Amazing Red' Palmiers et Compagnie

Phormium 'Amazing Red' is an evergreen perennial. It is a 2' tall, dramatic plant composed of many swordlike, stiffly vertical leaves in a fan pattern. Leaves are dark reddish brown in color.


Phormium tenax 'Amazing Red' Achat Lin de Nouvelle Zélande rouge Amazing red, Planting

Phormium 'Amazing Red' is a small variety of flax growing only 2-3 feet tall with upright narrow dark reddish-brown leaves. Makes a great container plant and provides excellent contrast to other plant forms and colors. Can tolerate fairly dry conditions but appears more lush with regular watering. Plant in full sun or light shade. Plant Care.


Amazing Red New Zealand Flax (Phormium 'Amazing Red') Mulch, Hillside Terrace, New Zealand Flax

Phormium 'Amazing Red' is an evergreen perennial. Big, dramatic plant composed of many swordlike, stiffly vertical leaves in a fan pattern. Flowers stems reach high above leaves, bearing clusters of 1"-2" blossoms in red.


Phormium 'Amazing Red' 14cm Turn it Tropical

Phormium 'Amazing Red' (New Zealand Flax) - New Zealand Flax cultivar with narrow dark, reddish-brown leaves that grows to only 18-24 inches tall. Can tolerate fairly dry conditions (coastal) but looks best with occasional to regular irrigatation.


PlantFiles Pictures Phormium, New Zealand Flax 'Guardsman' (Phormium) by Kell

Amazing Red Bold rapier shaped dark-brown leaves with fine dark brown margins. Height 30-36" tall. Phormium 'Apricot Queen' Soft pastel yellow edged green with a tinge of apricot on edges Height 24-30" tall. Phormium 'Carousel' Green leaves with a thick pink edge Height 18-24". Phormium 'Rainbow Sunrise' Pink in the center with bronze edges


Phormium 'Amazing Red' (p19) Bunkers Hill Plant Nursery

The Phormium Tenax Amazing Red has long, slender leaves that can grow up to 10 feet tall and 5 inches wide. The leaves are a deep maroon color that gradually fades to a bronze-green shade towards the base. Each leaf has a distinct midrib that runs the length of the blade. The plant produces tall flower stalks in the summer that can reach up to.


Amazing Red New Zealand Flax (Phormium 'Amazing Red') in Wilmette Chicago Evanston Glenview

New Zealand Flax, or Phormium, is a handsome long-lived evergreen shrub that forms bold clumps of elongated sword-shaped leaves. The attractive, often colourful foliage looks good all-year round and makes the perfect foil for other plants in borders, raised beds, gravel gardens and pots.


Phormium 'Amazing Red' (New Zealand Flax)

Popular for its reddish-bronze color and petite size, Phormium 'Amazing Red' grows to a manageable 18-24"' tall and wide. Upon close inspection, the leaves are a blend of rust and red, which combine to give this Phormium its rich color. For best results, plant in full sun to part shade and provide light to regular water. Cold hardy to 15° F.


Phormium 'Amazing Red' Palmiers et Compagnie

Phormium 'Amazing Red' FORM-ee-um Audio This New Zealand flax has dark reddish brown leaves that form a neat clump less than 2 feet tall and about as wide. It makes a great container plant. Care Grow in full sun or part shade. Keep soil consistently moist. Where not hardy, move indoors to a cool, sunny location before the first frost, if desired.


Phormium Amazing Red New Zealand Flax Garden Plants

Description: A stunning perennial that has large reddish-brown sword-like leaves that grow tall and vertical; beautiful and eye catching as an accent in the garden or massed along borders; also a great center for a mixed container Ornamental Features


Phormium Special Red New Zealand Flax Jungle Garden Style Garden Plants

New Zealand Flax Care New Zealand grows in average, well-drained soil and a location sheltered from harsh winds. These plants will also tolerate poor, non-fertile soil. This plant is grown mostly for its attractive foliage, but it produces flower stalk with red or yellow flowers in mid-summer.


Phormium 'Amazing Red'

Phormium 'Amazing Red' is an evergreen perennial grass (or at least grassy in appearance) with red and chocolate foliage and red flowers in spring and summer. It can grow 18 IN - 24 IN - wide, 18 IN - 24 IN - tall. It contributes grassy texture to the garden. Deer and rabbit resistant.


PlantFiles Pictures New Zealand Flax 'Amazing Red' (Phormium tenax) by growin

Buy this plant Plant nurseries 3 suppliers Size Ultimate height 0.5-1 metres Time to ultimate height 2-5 years Ultimate spread 0.5-1 metres Growing conditions Loam Sand Clay Moisture Moist but well-drained, Well-drained pH Acid, Alkaline, Neutral Colour & scent Position Full sun Partial shade Aspect East-facing or South-facing or West-facing

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