New Fashionable–Phenomenal Phormium Mix Seed (N-Zealand Flax) Free P&P

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Seller: twilightgardenseeds ✉️ (12,921) 100%, Location: boston, GB, Ships to: GB, Item: 255822556641 NEW FASHIONABLE–PHENOMENAL PHORMIUM MIX SEED (N-ZEALAND FLAX) FREE P&P.

This is for a great mixture of 10 fresh seed harvested from some of the best Phormiums available today, this collection are all the immense and colossal giants of the family, that need protection, I have not included the dwarf of quite tender forms that need protection, these produce phenomenal massive evergreen structures unlike anything else around for 365 days a year and once established are bone-hardy! What else can be so easy yet provide quite substantial statuesque features, superb focal-points, and complete year round interest without even turning a hair at the frost or snow? They still look so pristine, whilst they just shrug all this off and I’m sure they are boasting and laughing at the rest of our imposing features all wrapped up in fleece (including ourselves!) what wimps we are! I cannot fault them on a single thing except …..well, their seed pods and seed do rather pong! To be honest they stink but quite of what, I’ve yet to figure out, haven’t a clue even – are they fly-pollinated? No information I have seen mentions anything, like it doesn’t exist but unfortunately it sure does! If you are still tempted to grow some now after reading this – stick your nose in the bag on arrival and tell me what it is, because it bugs me to death!

  I still love these plants with a great passion, and so do garden designers and architects, they have fast become very popular and fashionable lately and are finally enjoying the limelight they so rightly deserve. There are some brilliant new ones arriving on the scene with some lovely colours, most of which are quite expensive though and need over-wintering and care, whilst the forms I am offering don’t. These are mostly tenax species and hybrids (giant & hardy) rather than cookianum (dwarf and tender) though some are crossed between the two. Phormium Tenax known as New Zealand Flax (still grown commercially for the leaf fibres to produce rope and twine) is now naturalised over SW England, W.Ireland and the Azores etc growing among hillsides, swamps, riverbanks, mountains and coastal areas, making them excellent choice for exposed seaside regions and salt-spray, and in those mild conditions can reach over 12ft in full flower making very imposing sights. In colder regions they grow better with a little shelter, full sun and fertile moist well-drained soil, though once mature are very tough, wind resistant and drought-tolerant and are great for adding a touch of drama to large pots and gravel beds. They add massive height to any border planting, screen or lawn specimen with their imposing swords and exotic looking flowers, and you can have lots of fun growing lots of these from seeds as I have, even young plants of Phormiums are expensive, mature ones can make a massive hole in your pocket, but from seed are very easy and affordable, especially if you want lots like me, for sub-tropical effect.

  These are hardy evergreen clump-forming perennials, forming woody crowns and tough leathery, 5-12cm wide, strong but soft sword-like foliage, being quite rigid and upright in Tenax, dark green – blue green below and reaching over 6ft eventually. Stout leafless stems also up to 6ft again produce an abundance of exotic tubular 2in 6 tepaled waxy flowers in erect panicles of dark red and long ornamental brown/black runner-bean like seed pods.In cookanium (colensoi) mountain flax now naturalised on the scilly isles (warmer) the foliage is more lax, softer and arching, narrower up to around 5ft in the forms I offer. These also have tall stems but differ with green/yellow or apricot and black flowers (as in Tenax Tricolor)and the pods are not only pendant but do an amazing trick, you can actually watch them twist and they stay put like someone (wrung them out!) and quite amazing really (just stinky!) Flower in mid-summer and hardy to around -15, mine have survived a lot lower than this, and may need a mulch whilst young just to be sure.

  My collection is taken from the following, mostly award winning varieties : Tenax (green) Atropurpureum (upright purple/bronze 2-3m AGM) Variagatum (light green/cream /lime green stripes & margins AGM) Yellow Wave (weeping striking bright yellow and green striped 1.5m AGM) Sundowner (outstanding upright grey, bronze purple green/rosepink margin 2m AGM) Golden Sword (fan shaped green & gold 1.5m) Hookeri Cream Delight (broadly striped & edged creamy yellow 1.5m AGM) Hookeri Tricolor (very hardy, vigourous arching, overlapping variegation of pink cream/yellow & red 1.5m) Apricot Queen (yellow/green stiff, blushed apricot 1m) Copper Beauty (slim, copper 2m) Evening Glow (upright then spreading pink/red 1m) and lastly Pink Panther (arching, strappy pink/red 1-1.5m).

  You will get a great variation of colours from this seed  - sown now at 55-61 f.

 

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  • Type: Seeds
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • Sub-Type: Perennials

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