Photinia 'Red Robin'
- Fabulous evergreen shrub, with bright red leaf tips, that stay red-purple for the first year.
- Great for hedges and screening, as reasonably vigorous growers, or as backdrop for year-round colour.
- Each spring new shoots are an amazing bright red colour, stunning in effect.
- A stunning evergreen plant that will provide you with stunning colours all year round.
- Supplied as a collection of 6 established plants in 13cm pots, ready to plant.
Product Description
Photinia 'Red Robin' is a very popular, vigorous evergreen shrub, which boasts glossy, bright red leaves, which give a spectacular display in spring and summer. The leaves gradually change through a mix of oranges, purples and bronzes, maturing to deep dark green. The newest shoots retain a dark red glow all year.
Red Robin is often planted as an ornamental shrub or as a fast-growing, dense hedge. It produces clusters of small white flowers in spring, sometimes followed by red fruit - but it is the bright, blood-red spring foliage that really sets this hedging shrub apart. The colour is really intense and unusual, especially so early in the year, and being evergreen, has year round interest.
A great and versatile shrub for hedging, screening, or as a backdrop, yet easily manageable in smaller gardens with annual pruning. Grows up to 30cm a year once established.
Supplied as a collection of 6 established plants in 13cm pots, ready to plant.
What Is Supplied
Plant Information
Top Tips
Care Guide
- Your Photinia will grow approx 30cm each year, and should be trimmed in spring and summer or can be left informal, just being trimmed down when needed.
- Photinia prefers a sunny site but will tolerate partial shade and although frost hardy young plants should be protected in winter until established.
To plant:
- Space plants approx 0.75-1m (2.5-3ft)
- Water your potted plant well
- Dig a hole a little deeper and 3 x wider than the nursery pot
- Add a soil conditioner such as well rotted manure to the earth removed from the hole if necessary
- Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots
- Place your plant in the hole at the same level at the pot
- Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling)
- Firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball
- Water well
- Mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc
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