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

For expert advice on maintaining your Red Robin hedge, see our completguide to when and how to prune Red Robin.