Seeds – McG Flax NZ Native

$4.99

Phormium cookianum – Flax, Wharariki

Flax, natural feature of New Zealand coastline. Valuable evergreen, for all year round interest in the home garden. Graceful, green leaves are a useful foil to bright foliage shrubs. An easy to maintain cover plant on banks, magnificent in large landscape designs. Wherever it is used it will battle strong winds, dry & wet conditions with ease.

Yellowish flowers appear in summer followed by curious spiralled seed heads. The seed heads are a source of nectar to birds and a special favourite to the native ‘Tui’. Flax was a very important plant to the early maori using the leaves to weave baskets mats cloaks fishing lines & nets.

Height: 1.5m

Contains approx 15 seeds.

Only 3 left in stock

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Description

Phormium cookianum – Flax, Wharariki

Flax, natural feature of New Zealand coastline. Valuable evergreen, for all year round interest in the home garden. Graceful, green leaves are a useful foil to bright foliage shrubs. An easy to maintain cover plant on banks, magnificent in large landscape designs. Wherever it is used it will battle strong winds, dry & wet conditions with ease.

Yellowish flowers appear in summer followed by curious spiralled seed heads. The seed heads are a source of nectar to birds and a special favourite to the native ‘Tui’. Flax was a very important plant to the early maori using the leaves to weave baskets mats cloaks fishing lines & nets.

Height: 1.5m

Contains approx 15 seeds.