Red Flax

This is one of my favourite flaxes, in a mixed planting in the driveway border. The shrubs on the edge are a pink flowering escallonia and a hebe.

mixed planting with red flax

The red flax brightens up this part of the border in winter, and its leaves glow in the summer sun. I'm looking warily at more recent photographs, though - in them the flax is twice as big, and not nearly so nice!

Oops - in the winter snow storm of 2006 this flax was completely flattened. Anyway, by then it had completely lost its red tones. Far too bulky to be growing so close to the driveway edge, it got the chop. Sorry!