Photinia Dynamo Red represents a signifcant improvement over the original Red Robin shrub. This is a faster developing plant with naturally bushy and upright growth that just looks neater and more tidy in all situations. Once established it is more resilient to inclement weather conditions such as Summer heat and drought or very cold weather in Winter, conditions that can sometimes take their toll on other varieties.

Photinia Dynamo Red has brilliant Red young growths that keep their colour for longer than older varieties, older and untrimmed shrubs will produce attractive heads of white flowers in late Spring.

This is a perfect Photinia for hedging purposes, the hedge will need far less formative pruning and trimming in the early years and it should certainly make its desired height a little faster. Hedges of this variety can be maintained at a desired height anywhere from 120-250cm. We see this as an excellent landscaping shrub too, larger drifts of this plant could be easily maintained to bring colour and interest to many situations and they would be a good starting point for topiary or even as a colourful potted specimen on a patio or seating area.

Photinia Dynamo Red is suitable for all soil types, these are easy shrubs to grow in any garden with reasonable drainage – wet boggy soil is the only situation that is out of bounds when growing Photinia. They do well in sun or partial shade but the redness of the new growths is always more intense in full sunlight.

Photinia hedges and shrubs are best trimmed in late Spring, after the first flush of new leaves has darkened. This will encourage successive new flushes of brilliant red leaves later in the season.

How to grow Photinia Dynamo Red
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 300cm 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.

Orders are being despatched within 3-5 working days, delivery is 1-2 days after we despatch.

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 5-7 working 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