Phormium Bronze Baby New Zealand Flax
New cultivars and hybrids are now available with leaves in bright shades of yellow pink red and bronze.
Phormium bronze baby new zealand flax. Phormium tenax or new zealand flax is a simple yet visually appealing and easy to care for plant. As bronze baby is a dwarf form it is perfect for those with small spaces in their gardens and is an outstanding feature plant border in both the garden bed or pots and containers. Phormium bronze baby new zealand flax bronze baby will reach a height of 0 6m and a spread of 0 6m after 2 5 years. Phormium bronze baby is a clump forming dwarf plant that features upright arching copper coloured foliage.
Gardeners grow new zealand flax phorium tenex as a large and often colorful spiky plant that makes an arresting focal point in the garden or in containers. You can t go out in public without spotting a phormium or two or three. Phormium bronze baby new zealand flax new zealand flax cultivar that grows to 4 6 feet tall with upright 1 1 2 wide dark reddish brown foliage that curves gracefully at the tips. In summer flower spikes are produced which attract nectar feeding birds.
It is a perfect spiky shrub that makes an eye catching elegant garden specimen. A lot of species even feature multiple colors. These are native to new zealand and were used by the maori people for fibre and flax thus also called as new zealand flax plants. It has sword like leaves that shoot up from the base of the plant.
A good medium sized bronze flax. Use phormium tenax bronze baby to add dramatic color in traditional mediterranean and contemporary gardens. The colors of the spikey foliage create a dramatic look. It comes in a variety of species that range in colors from solid green to red and even pink and burgundy.
Bronze baby is one of the phormium variety with long arching purple bronze leaves that create a striking architectural bush.