Add bold texture and year-round color to your garden with Phormium ‘Blondie’, a compact New Zealand Flax known for its graceful, arching foliage in vibrant golden-yellow and green stripes.

This dwarf variety features a unique soft, weeping habit, making it perfect for containers, borders, and modern landscape designs.

Why Gardeners Love It

• Striking gold and green variegated foliage
• Compact, dwarf size—ideal for small spaces
• Drought-tolerant once established
• Deer & wind resistant
• Perfect for containers and modern landscapes

Plant Details

• Botanical Name: Phormium cookianum ‘Blondie’
• Common Name: New Zealand Flax
• Height: 1–2 feet
• Spread: 3–4 feet
• Light: Full sun to partial shade
• Zones: 7–11
• Type: Evergreen perennial

Perfect For

• Container gardens & patios
• Modern & tropical landscapes
• Xeriscaping & low-water gardens
• Coastal plantings
• Borders & accent plantings

Care Tips

• Plant in well-draining soil
• Water regularly until established
• Tolerates drought once mature
• Remove older leaves to maintain appearance
• Protect in colder zones with mulch or containers

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.