Phormium cookianum

• Size: Ht 1m Wd  1m
  
•  Sunlight: Full sun - part shade
  
•  Temperature: frost hardy
  
•  Foliage: Evergreen
• Coastal tolerance: Suitable
  
• Other features:
• Garden care: Plant in full sun to part shade in any soil conditions from quite boggy to quite dry. Feed once a year with Texture Plants 12 month planting food. Water regulary during hot summer periods to keep growth active. Remove dead leaves as required to keep the bush looking tidy.

Found throughout NZ, this native flax has dark, olive-green slightly weeping leaves with long flower stalks bearing yellowish orange flowers during summer. Extremely attractive to our native birds. Tough plants for hillsides, banks, river sides or containers