Red robin × fraseri - Photinia ❅hardy - severe frosts may damage new growth ☼ full sun/ partial shade ★ Award ✿ Evergreen

• 7 Dec, 2012
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Preferred common nameChristmas berry 'Red Robin'
FamilyRosaceae

Photinia can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple leaves and panicles of small white flowers, usually followed by red berries

'Red Robin' is a dense medium-sized evergreen shrub of erect habit, with glossy, elliptic leaves to 10cm in length, bright red when young, later dark green. Flowers creamy-white, rather sparse

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Awards
Award of Garden Merit
How to growSunlight
Full sun Part shade Aspect
North-facing, East-facing, South-facing or West-facing
Sheltered or Exposed
Cultivation
Grows best in fertile, humus-rich soil in sun or partial shade
Soil
Well-drained or Moist but well-drained
Acid or Neutral
Clay, Loam or Sand
Propagation
Propagate by semi-hardwood cuttings in summer

Suggested planting locations and garden types
Hedging/Screens or Low Maintenance

How to carePruning
Pruning group 1

Pests
The leaves may be eaten by vine weevil
Diseases
May be affected by fireblight and a leaf spot
CharacteristicsPlant type
Shrub

Habit
Bushy

ResilienceHardiness
H4 (hardy)
ColourFlower
White in Spring

Foliage
Dark Green in Autumn, Summer and Winter
Red in Spring

SizeUltimate height
2.5-4 metres

Ultimate spread
2.5-4 metres

Time to ultimate height
10-20 years