Beautiful bronze foliage phormium tenax 'Bronze Baby' planted in large 5 litre pots, whilst classed as winter hardy to -10, these plants may need some protection in colder areas of the Uk or during severe winters full details of how to do this can be found in our care and maintenance tab below. They are an ideal choice for pot planted evergreen plants or to add summer and winter colour to a low growing border they are resistant to salt and will withstand exposed windy sites, so a great choice for coastal planting.
Phormium Tenax New Zealand Flax Plant 'Bronze Baby' 10 Litre Pot. Phormium are colourful stylish garden plant that require very little maintenance, a little help in severe winters, and a tidy up in spring. If you want to be especially pro active a general liquid fertiliser in spring and once again in summer, if pot planted a slow realease food mixed in the compost is ideal. They can look good all year round, their leathery, arching, sword-shaped leaves will create a dramatic focal point in any sheltered border or container during hot summers the plants will produce tall spikes of tubular flowers similar to an outdoor yucca but more arching and much bigger! Bronze Baby is a compact phormium with deep purple-bronze leaves.
Phormiums are not tender plants that only grow in very mild southern areas they can grow pretty much anywhere in the UK and make especially good plants for coastal and windswept areas . They can tolerate minus 5°C without issue which during most winters especially in milder areas is just about as bad as it gets. They can cope with -10°C if basic measures are taken. All that is necessary is a deep and dry mulch of peat, leaf mould, leaves or bark right around the base of the plant and between individual shoots if you have a large clump with many side shoots. The leaves of larger clumps can offer protection to a lesser degree, even if they are split and scarred by the wind, any damaged leaves can be easily removed once the worst of the weather has passed.
