Photinia Red Robin. Red-Leaved Evergreen Shrub x1

Photinia Red Robin. Red-Leaved Evergreen Shrub x1 Description

Photinia Red Robin – Spectacular Red-Leaved Evergreen Shrub. 9cm Pots

Bring year-round colour to your garden with Photinia Red Robin, sometimes called Christmas Berry. This large, vigorous evergreen hedging plant is loved for its glossy, laurel-like leaves and brilliant red new growth, which makes it one of the most eye-catching red-leaved shrubs you can grow.

Why Choose Photinia Red Robin?

Photinia Red Robin was raised in New Zealand and is a spectacular clone with vivid red young leaves and shoots. As the foliage matures, it turns a rich, glossy green, so the shrub looks good in every season. It has earned the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit (AGM), a mark of proven garden performance.

• Brilliant red young foliage that stands out against the green mature leaves
• Big, leathery, glossy evergreen leaves
• Ivory-coloured spring flowers, sometimes followed by spherical red fruit
• Hardy and easy to grow in most UK gardens
• Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM)

A Versatile Photinia Hedge or Specimen Shrub

A Photinia hedge makes a dense, colourful screen for privacy and shelter. The shrub also works well as a standalone feature plant in a mixed border. Red Robin is occasionally grown as an ornamental hedge, and it reaches an eventual height and spread of 400 cm x 400 cm. Fully grown, it makes an impressive garden centrepiece.

Where to Plant

This hardy shrub grows in full sun or partial shade and thrives in any reasonably well-drained garden soil. In a sunny position, ivory flowers appear in April to May. Spherical red fruit sometimes follow.

Care and Growing Tips

• Pruning: Keep plants well clipped to encourage plenty of vivid red young growth.
• Feeding: Apply a mulch of well-rotted garden compost or farmyard manure each spring.
• Planting out: Plants can go out immediately. For better results, grow them on briefly in a slightly larger container before moving them to their final position.

What You Will Receive

• Supplied ex. 9cm pots
• Immediate dispatch
• Free delivery

Seasonal Appearance

Plants are living items, and their appearance changes with the seasons. Pictures show mature plants in bloom and are for illustration only. In autumn and winter some shrubs may look bare, and this is perfectly normal. Every plant is visually checked and inspected before packing.

Delivery and Returns

If there is a problem, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery. Goods are accepted for return only after we have been informed and have given permission. Refunds are issued once items are received back in saleable condition within 14 days of the original dispatch date. The buyer pays return charges unless the item was shipped in error. We cannot accept responsibility for failure after planting, as pests, disease, weather and horticultural practice are outside our control.