If you suffer from Asthma, Hay Fever or Skin Allergies you want to select plants that do not exacerbate your problems. New Zealand Flax or Phormium works well in a low allergen garden taking several years to flower. The sword shaped leaves are the attraction of this range of plants useful for a focal point in a border, gravel or container.
The species Phormium tenax is quite large growing but some hybrid varieties like ‘Bronze Baby’ will work well in even small gardens. Phormium ‘Purpureum’ is a robust grower but ‘Sundowner’ (below) is smaller and has interesting cream, purple and green striped foliage.
Indoors you can try Phormium ‘Dusky Boy’ or ‘Surfer Chief’ but Phormiums prefer a sunny site outdoors.
Fern-Wood Nurseries in Devon have a lot of information on 190+ Phormium varieties and how to cultivate them.
With regard to ‘Low Allergy Garden Phormium’, might the two named cultivars be p. ‘Dusky Chief’ and p. ‘Surfer Boy’?
SDM
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