Description
Photinia is a popular evergreen shrub with glossy green leaves, white flowers in flattened flowerheads and young red shoots. The best known of the photinias is Photinia × fraseri ‘Red Robin’ which is often planted as a specimen shrub or as a fast-growing, dense, evergreen hedge.
- Other common names Christmas berry ‘Red Robin’
- Family Rosaceae
- Genus Photinia can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple leaves and panicles of small white flowers, usually followed by red berries
- Details ‘Red Robin’ is a dense medium-sized evergreen shrub of erect habit, with glossy, elliptic leaves to 10cm in length, bright red when young, and later dark green. Flowers creamy-white, rather sparse
- Forms thick barriers of shiny, deep green and red leaves making it ideal for wind shelter, and visual screening
- Plant 3 per metre for best results
- Healthy evergreen shrubs
- 10 cm pot
