Prices:
| |
Each |
20 or more |
| 1.5L Pot |
$9.50 |
$9.00 |
Details:
| Type: |
Flax |
| Growth Rate: |
Medium |
| Mature Height: |
1 m |
| Mature Width: |
1.2 m |
| Site Condition: |
Coastal, Exposed, Frost Tolerant, Heavy Soil, Loamy Soil, Sandy Soil |
| Sun: |
Full Sun, Part Shade |
| Drainage: |
Dry, Moist |
| Frosts: |
Hardy |
| Features: |
Suitable for hedging or shelter. Attractive to birds, insects, lizards and bees. Colorful perennial. Rongoa. Flower colour: Yellow. Foliage colour: Green. Fruit colour: Black. Native. Suitable restoration species. |
Phormium cookianum, Wharariki, is commonly called Mountain Flax, is a superb species, one of the hardiest and the most striking. Long arching green leaves all year round, and 2 metre long flower stalks over summer - particularly attractive to native birds. Use as a 'groundbreaker' in new gardens, en masse on banks. Foliage and flowers are great for floral artwork.
Phormium cookianum is a flax up to 1-3 metres tall but generally smaller than Phormium tenax. The numerous leaves are 5-12cm wide, thick, fibrous, droopy, and rise from fan-like bases. The tubular 25-40 mm long flowers are a dull pink or yellow colour. The seed capsule is pendulous and twisted.
Habitat: Strictly confined to subalpine, alpine situations, where it mainly grows on cliffs and mountain slopes, in seepages, along stream sides or on the margins of bogs.
Flowering: Spring [November - December]
Fruiting: Summer [January - March]
