Strengths, Weaknesses & Design Usage
Strengths of Phormium cookianum:
- 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 cookianum
- Does not produce showy attractive flowers
Design & Plant Use for Phormium cookianum:
- 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
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Common Missspellings: Formium, Phormeum, Formeum, Phormiam, Phormuim