Pink Flax

Every Moosey garden border has at least one small coloured flax. This cream and pink hybrid is a colourful feature growing in the corner of the patio garden.

Pink and Cream Corner Flax

In the busy summer months the coloured flaxes in my garden blend in with the surrounding roses and perennials. It's not until the depths of winter that they are truly appreciated for the warmth they bring to the garden.

Pink Flaxes in Winter

A Recurring Moosey Motif

They are a recurring thematic Moosey motif - there is a similar flax directly opposite the patio over the grass, and a third in the curved border by the driveway. In winter this flax trinity looks brilliantly and deliberately designed - hmm...

I have to remember to trim out any plain green leaves. Often one whole half side will revert to the species Phormium Tenax - this habit is very annoying, since the species is over two metres tall. I have enough problems with plants outgrowing their allocated positions without the nature of Phormiums conspiring against me!

In this photograph taken in the very middle of winter you'll just see the echoing flax by the gravel. With no flower colours to pull focus the flaxes are very much centre stage.

In the distance is the Frisbee Lawn - all its fence roses are waiting for their annual prune. Over the lawn is the Stables.