The New Zealand flax sorts are slow-growing, tough, much-tolerant, extremely spectacular container plants! There are one-colour-leafed varieties with green, reddish-brown or purplish-black foliage and some varieties with different bright colours, for example cream-white, yellow, pink, red or purple striped leaf versions! In addition, significant differences can be seen between the sizes of certain varieties, however the height of the mature individuals is usually around 1 meter! (Almost the same width as well!) Thanks to this eye-catching diversity, these tough plants - either alone or together with other container plants - can be wonderful ornaments on the balcony, terrace or in a part of a garden around the house! They especially look good either with the giant-leaved bananas or in the company of feijoa, eucalyptus, oleander, nightshade, bougainvillea etc.!
Wintering is super simple because they easily survive minus 5-6 degrees of centigrade without problems, so an unheated summer kitchen, press house, garage, a lighter basement, etc. is perfectly suitable for wintering. They also stand if their soil sometimes dries up, so they can be left without `supervision` for many weeks in winter!
Any sort of genus Phormium is definitely recommended for container plant lovers!
Few bold foliage plants can compare to the vivid `Rainbow Queen`. Its multicoloured strappy leaves are striated with shades of pink, red-bronze and deep green. The olive-green leaves are dramatically edged in red, margins fade to cream in summer!
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Drought tolerant |  |
Shadow |
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Average water demand |  |
Half-shade |
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High water demand |  |
Sunny |
ZONE: The USDA Hardiness Zone of the plant. See the chart of USDA Hardiness Zones HERE!
SIZE: The size of the plant in centimeter.
QUALITY: For example: K1: we grow the plant in 1 liter container, CSP8x8: we grow the plant in 8x8 cm pot, SZGY: we ship the plant with bare root (carefully packed), FL: we ship the plant with root ball.
