Planting Photinia

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Our standard shrubs are grafted onto stems ranging between 40 to 80cm. The effect is compact bushy heads on tall stems for an unusual display. They almost look like miniature trees. These will make an attractive feature in any garden and beside ponds or other water features.

 

Standard Photinia Red Robin is a standard grown variety of Photinia, so its compact size and stem grafted height is ideal for containers on your patio as well as in a garden location. It has fascinating evergreen foliage with brilliant green tinged red leaves. In autumn, it will turn a vivid shade of red for a fantastic display. Our standard shrub version is a terrific way to include this great plant in your garden without dedicating as much space or time for maintenance. Below you will find standard Red Robin along with our other standard shrub varieties.


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0:00 well it's depressing out there it's midwinter the weather's not looking too

0:04 clever it's cold but in here happiness looms because I've had a

0:08 delivery/ These are photinias but they have standards and they're evergreen and

0:18 that is a lovely thing, Photinia Red Robin

0:22 now standards and half standards. Standard is about a meter tall half

0:27 standard about half of that this is how they come in the box. Box looks handy

0:32 too, now planting them couldn't be easier a few crocks in the bottom now this is

0:39 just the drainage that most plants hate having that the feet sat in water they

0:45 just start to rot but they need moisture so as long as the moisture can actually

0:50 build up but then run away that's all you're doing it for. So crocks in the

0:54 bottom you've got a nice heavy pot because there's quite a head of foliage

0:59 on this so you've got a quite heavy pot too actually in the wind as it buffets

1:03 because these are probably on the patio or outside a porch and then a touch of

1:08 John Innes compost now John Innes compost is soil based and it's heavy

1:17 because it's the soil based so that all adds to the to the weight to keep it

1:24 nice and grounded but just a good few handfuls of John Innes compost now this

1:30 is John Innes number three that just means it's got more look at the roots on

1:39 that beautiful things that is lovely and just bed it down on the John Innes now

1:46 John Innes number three has got more nutrients than John Innes the one and

1:50 two so that will last in that pot for three years I'm still at least three

1:58 years just top it off with some nice compost once you've done this it's going

2:05 to be quite snug that beautiful this takes away the

2:11 winter blues now for Photinia Red Robin is grown for its red leaves in spring if

2:21 you've got anywhere that south-facing it would be it's it brings out the red even

2:27 more but they're beautiful the foliage color is absolutely beautiful the South

2:32 of France Australia any warm countries they actually grow as hedging plants but

2:38 a half standard outside your porch look at that started to go already its

2:46 budding out now just put it because we're in midwinter I mean just put it

2:50 somewhere nice and gentle away from the worst of the frost away from strong

2:54 winds and in a month's time it's going to start and then in about two months

2:58 time the leaves are going to turn they're gonna start turning red and then

3:01 you watch it before and you know why it's called Red Robin


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