Pronunication: FOR-mi-um ten-AX
Like Purple fountain grass, New Zealand Flax has become increasingly popular in residential and commercial landscape design in recent years. Possessing a similar deep-red, purplish, bronze color, New Zealand Flax's leaves are more broad or strap-like than the finer fountain grass. It also tends to get taller, reaching a height of 5 feet or more, and about 4 feet wide. Although not an easy task, Phormium will need to be de-clumped every few years. Look at it this way -- after you have separated the clumps and replanted them elsewhere in the garden, you will have gained new plants for free!
Smaller or different variations of New Zealand Flax include:
- Cream Delight
- Dwarf Variegated
- Evening Glow
- Apricot Queen
- Jack Spratt
- Rainbow Maiden
- Rainbow Queen
- Platt's Black
- Rainbow Chief
- Sundowner
- Rainbow Sunrise
- Yellow Wave
