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Phormium - 'Rainbow Queen' (New Zealand Flax)

Type Grass, Evergreen
Form Spiky Foliage / Spiky Upright Form, Architectural Form
Size Medium Border Plant (50-180cm height)
Colours Red Foliage
Care Low/Easy Maintenance
Hardiness Frost hardy, Seaside Friendly
Growth Medium Growing Plant
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Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage

Strengths of Phormium:
  • Provides valuable winter interest
  • Evergreen foliage for all year round colour and screening
  • Suitable for container growing
  • Architectural plant – ideal as a ‘stand out’ plant
  • Suitable for exposed coastal planting
  • Attractive form or foliage for all year interest
  • Tolerates full sun and sandy, drought-prone soils
  • Tolerates heavy clay soils
Weaknesses of Phormium
  • Does not produce showy attractive flowers
Design & Plant Use for Phormium:
  • Evergreen plant with attractive foliage for winter interest
  • Ornamental grass for summer long foliage interest
  • Architectural plant with dramatic foliage suitable for hot dry spot
  • Ornamental grass ideal for drift planting in a sunny spot

Common Missspellings: Formium, Phormeum, Formeum, Phormiam, Phormuim


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Phormium - 'Rainbow Queen' (New Zealand Flax)

This plant is available from Crocus:


Phormium 'Platt's Black' (New Zealand flax)

Dramatic, almost black, strappy foliage.

Availability: within 2-3 days excludes weekends.

Size: 3 litre pot.

£19.99

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Find out where you can buy Phormium - 'Rainbow Queen' (New Zealand Flax) online in the UK.

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