Plant in full sun to light shade. 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.

We originally saw this amazing plant when visiting Margaret Jones at her New Zealand Flax Hybridisers Nursery in 1989 and received a shipment of it from her in 1991. Unfortunately, this original shipment was quarantined upon arrival with a Q rated fungus and we had to wait many years before we could get more plants to put it into production and introduce it into the US trade. We were finally able to receive new plants and start propagation of 'Evening Glow' in 2004 and by 2006 we were selling it. We continued to grow and sell it until we sold out all plants we had, including our propagation stock, after announcing in 2023 that the nursery would be closing in 2025. In 2007, shortly after we were able to put this plant into production, there was an additional newly named cultivar that honored Margaret, fittingly called as Phormium 'Margaret Jones'. These two cultivars were so similar we really were never sure that they weren't the same plant. 

The information displayed on this page about Phormium 'Evening Glow' 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.