Flax Yellow Wave

Yellow Wave is one of the cheeriest new Zealand flax hybrids. It is reasonably large and bulky, and has a weeping form. In this close-up it looks more like a Green Wave - the leaves are much more yellow in Summer.

New Zealand Flax Yellow Wave

Fortunately at one giant Easter sale I spied about ten pots of undersized Yellow Waves. Of course I bought them all, and thinking they were a small flax planted them in all sorts of silly places. For example, one is right on the edge of the tiniest path in the Moosey garden. Very foolish!

Flax Yellow Wave in the Rose Garden

Flaxes and Roses

New Zealand flaxes deserve beautiful companions, and I am very fond of growing them with roses. The picture above shows a Yellow Wave flax in the Pond paddock garden with friendly neighbour the rose Rosy Cushion.

Several of those original sale plants started life in pots and have only just gone into proper garden locations. Several more have been subtly shifted when no-one's looking. Oops!

For some unknown reason, my son Eggy is rather rude about Yellow Wave flaxes. I wonder if they remind him of the sunshine that London misses out on?