The Phormium Yellow Wave will add color all year with its leaves. It adds a nice contrasting texture to other shrubs as well.
Photo of a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

Steve Lambert, Winner Beautification Award for Small Landscape Design - Build Small Country-club Project, with courtyard deck, low maintenance, Bitter root walls, With Black Bubbling Pot

Design ideas for a mid-sized traditional partial sun backyard concrete paver formal garden in San Francisco.

Phormium Maori Maiden and heucheras Photo by Holly@StickleyCreative.com
Inspiration for a modern landscaping in Portland.

2 years of growth have filled in with the Phormiums taller and the Gazania filling as ground cover.
Elegant front yard home design photo in San Francisco

This is an example of a transitional drought-tolerant and partial sun front yard river rock flower bed in San Francisco.

From the opposite perspective looking from the street, the Phormiums and Deer Grass show the same texture but at a different scale with the green and gold of the grass offset by the bronze blades of the Phormiums.

Design ideas for a modern landscaping in Los Angeles.

Design ideas for a traditional landscaping in San Francisco.

Shirley Kost
Inspiration for a contemporary landscaping in Los Angeles.

Cordyline Raspberry Festival and Phormium Apricot Queen were used to flank the large stone water feature. The existing Canna remained.
Home design - contemporary home design idea in San Francisco

Photo of a modern landscaping in Los Angeles.

Yellow Wave Phormiums add a lot of color all year and get about 3' by 3' with arching leaves.
Design ideas for an eclectic landscaping in San Francisco.

The contrast of greens and textures along with the different yellows in the Phormium leaves and Gazania blooms adds interest to a sidewalk planting.
Inspiration for an eclectic landscaping in San Francisco.

Shirley Kost
This is an example of a mediterranean landscaping in Los Angeles.

Phormium 'Guardsman' provides year round color and structure.
Photo of an eclectic landscaping in San Francisco.

Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’, Phormium 'Black Adder', Lomandra hybrida 'Lomlon', Lavandula stoechas 'Winter Bee'

Because the sunniest place to grow vegetables is in the front yard, custom Cor-ten steel planters were designed as an attractive sculptural element, their graceful curves complementing the organic flow of the landscape. Informal gravel provides stable footing to walk and work, while remaining permeable to rain. Dwarf citrus grow in pots, and foundation plantings of Ribes sanguineum and Phormium 'Guardsman', and Ficus pumila vine anchor the home. Photo © Jude Parkinson-Morgan.

Janet Pozzuoli-Vallin
This is an example of a mediterranean landscaping in San Diego.