Photinia Carre Rouge Hedging

The widely planted Photinia Red Robin is one of the most requested plants on our website with its well known bright red young leaves. Photinia Carre Rouge is a big improvement, the leaves are a little smaller and have a brighter blood red colour that lasts for much longer. Successive flushes of these colourful new growths will usually emerge through the growing season, not just a single flush of red in the Spring.

It is a bushy and upright shrub needing less maintenance because the branches dont flop around. Like other Photinia it carries attractive corymbs of white flowers in early Summer on older plants, adding to the season of interest.

This is an excellent hedging plant, more upright and less floppy making it easier to trim and shape when young. The bushy growth would suit a large pot or container to brighten any patio or seating area and the smaller leaves would be well suited to topiary. Photinia Carre Rouge make great ‘lollipop’ trees on stems and could even be trained into pleached trees.

Photinia Carre Rouge grows well in any soil type, they prefer good drainage and will grow in sun or partial shade although the best leaf colouring is always in a sunny spot.

A hedge of Photinia Carre Rouge can be maintained at a height of 100-200+cm making this Photinia plant a good choice for smaller gardens where its better know cousin may get just a little too big if not well maintained. Trim them in early Spring as required, by trimming after the first flush of red leaves, more will follow the same season.

How to grow Photinia Carre Rouge
Position: Sun or partial shade
Foliage: Evergreen shrub, leaves stay on the shrub all year.
Soil and site: Any well drained soil.

Flowering time: May and June

Growth rate: moderate/fast
Ultimate height and spread 250cm high x 200cm wide.

Hardiness: Fully hardy.
Aftercare: Water regularly after planting and for the first season. Prune or trim in late Spring to encourage more of the colourful new growth.

Delivery is free for most orders above our free delivery thresholds, these are displayed above our prices in the product listings and summarized below. If you don’t need that many plants it’s not a problem, you can choose to pay our delivery charge and only order what you need.

Delivery is convenient – no signature is required so you don’t need to wait in, we will leave your parcel in the safe place that you nominate.

Delivery is fast – because we pick orders daily from our own growing beds your plants only travel the small hop to our packing shed before being sent to you, they are usually delivered within 3-7 days.

Delivery is reliable – we have been selling and delivering Hedging Plants to our customers nationwide since 1992. We have a lot of experience in packing them safely and only use tried and tested delivery partners.

Smaller Plants (Parcel Delivery)

Heavy Plants (Pallet Delivery)

Tall Plants 2.5m+ (Specialist Delivery)

Exceptions to our delivery charges are Scottish Highland and Isle of Wight delivery areas where we need to charge a little extra to cover the cost of deliveries to these outlying areas. We don’t currently delivery to other offshore addresses including Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.

Tall plants over 2.5 metres have to be delivered by our own specialised transport, our delivery area is limited to mainland England and Wales only.

Please note there is a minimum order value of £50 for orders containing smaller plants and £250 for orders containing heavier plants

Complete delivery information can be viewed on our Delivery Information page