Plant in full sun to light shade - may sun burn in full sun in Southern California. Can tolerate fairly dry conditions (coastal) but looks best with occasional to regular irrigation. Hardy to 15-20 F. Possibly root hardy below these temperatures but with severe foliage damage unless protected. The reddest of the Flax and fairly stable in that new foliage shoots did not revert much but a very slow grower with a tendency for the older foliage to lose the reddish colors.

Phormium 'Dazzler' was introduced by Mr. Ralph Jordon of Australasian Nurseries in Pakuranga, New Zealand. We first received plants of this cultivar from New Zealand Flax Hybridisers in 1983. It was slow to build stock on it and we first offered it for sale in 1993 and continued to grow and sell it until 2011. In the early 1990s an attempt was made to reproduce this plant through micro propagation techniques (tissue culture) by Monrovia Nursery and, although the resulting plants lacked the variegation that was the "dazzle" of this cultivar, the end product was a very nice all red dwarf plant that we called Phormium 'Monrovia Red'. 

The information displayed on this page about Phormium 'Dazzler' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.