New Zealand Flax Phormium Evening Glow New Zealand Flax Phormium Evening Glow
New Zealand Flax Phormium Evening Glow
New Zealand Flax Phormium Evening Glow

New Zealand Flax Phormium 'Evening Glow'

Explore our new range of hardy phormiums and add drama to your pots and borders
Perfect In Pots
Plant In Sunshine
Winter Hardy
Easy To Grow
  • A compact, fully hardy phormium with lustrous, red and bronze leaves
  • New Zealand flax, 'Evening Glow' is a striking addition to borders and containers
  • This evergreen, clump forming variety makes an instant garden statement
  • Ideal for a gravel garden or a Mediterranean garden
  • A dwarf, compact form ultimately growing to just 80-100cm, supplied as a well-established plant in a 3L pot
3L Pot - Item: 510832
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Product Description

Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Evening Glow' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of sword-like leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden.

Stunning in a border and stylish in a container, this recently introduced phormium plant has particularly attractive, bright red, lustrous foliage highlighted with a bronze edge, and is a compact form - meaning that it won't overshadow everything in your garden plus you can grow it in a pot!

Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants.

Easy to grow, phormium 'Evening Glow' is a compact form, and needs virtually no maintenance – it may even reward you with spikes of red flowers in late summer.

Ultimately growing to around 1m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.

What Is Supplied

Item 510832 supplied as:
Ultimately growing to around 1m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.

Plant Information

Top Tips

Protect young plants with a thick mulch over winter to protect the crown.

Care Guide

Planting Advice for your Phormium

  • Grow Phormiums in a sunny, sheltered site in well-drained soil.  Protect from hard frost and winds.
  • Dig a planting hole 3 x wider than the roots of the shrub you're planting and mix some well-rotted compost or manure with the soil from the hole and use this to re-fill once the shrub is in place.
  • We've found that a square hole is better than a round one as the new roots, once they reach the edges tend to grow in a circle round the circumference of the hole whereas when they reach the corners of a square hole, they find it easier to grow through.
  • Before planting soak container-grown shrubs thoroughly and allow to drain.
  • Remove the plant from its pot and tease out a few of the roots.
  • Add Mycorrhizal fungi to the roots when planting to help plants establish quicker.
  • Place your shrub in the hole at the same level at the pot.
  • Refill the hole with the earth removed (backfilling) and firm in the soil with your heel, avoiding the root ball.
  • Water well and mulch around the base of the plant with a collar, compost, gravel, bark etc.
  • If you're planting into pots, place some old rocks, stones or gravel in the bottom of the pot for drainage and ballast.
  • Use the best compost you can buy and some sand or grit for drainage.

 

Aftercare Advice

  • Keep plants well-watered while they establish, especially if planted up in a pot.
  • Hardy to -5°C, protect from cold winds as it is these that tend to cause the most damage to young plants.

 

Pruning Advice

  • Phormiums require no special pruning; only occasional maintenance is needed to remove any growth that has been damaged over winter.
Planting / Flowering Calendar
Planting Time
Flowering Time
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
Plant Dimensions
100cm
100cm
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New Zealand Flax Phormium 'Evening Glow'
New Zealand Flax Phormium 'Evening Glow'
3L Pot
Item: 510832
RRP £24.99
Deal Price £12.99
Save: £12.00 - 48%
Currently Unavailable