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Escallonia Red Knight NZ is a fantastic evergreen shrub that’s rapidly becoming a favourite for New Zealand gardens. With its striking crimson-red flower clusters and glossy green foliage, Escallonia Red Knight brings reliable colour and texture to hedges, borders, or as a specimen plant. If you’re searching for a hardy, easy-care shrub to add year-round interest to your outdoor space, Red Knight deserves a top spot on your list.

Escallonia 'Red Knight'

Escallonia 'Red Knight' is a vibrant evergreen shrub prized for its masses of rich red flowers and dense glossy foliage. This hardy variety produces an impressive flowering display over a long season, adding bold colour and attracting pollinators to the garden. Its strong growth habit makes it ideal for hedging, screening, borders, and feature planting. Well suited to New Zealand conditions, Escallonia 'Red Knight' is a reliable and easy care shrub that provides year round structure and outstanding seasonal beauty.

Escallonia 'Red Knight' growing as a border around the base of a tree.
  • Suited to regions:
    Subtropical, Temperate
  • Plant type:
    Shrubs
  • Height:
    2.00 m
  • Spread:
    2.00 m
  • Flowering time:
    Spring, Summer
  • Tolerances:
    Coastal, Hardy
  • Garden uses:
    Containers, Hedging, Living areas, Pool areas
  • Garden styles:
    Backyard, City & Courtyard, Coastal, Formal, Frontyard, Modern
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Why Choose Escallonia Red Knight for NZ Gardens?

Escallonia Red Knight is perfectly suited for New Zealand’s variable climates. It boasts excellent wind tolerance, copes well with coastal exposures, and stands up to light frosts—making it a resilient option from the Far North to the lower South Island. Its upright growth habit and dense foliage make it ideal for forming privacy screens, windbreaks, and clipped hedges. While its evergreen nature ensures structure even in the depths of winter, the true show begins in summer when vivid wine-red flowers cover the shrub, attracting bees and butterflies into your garden.

Planting and Care Tips

To get the best from Escallonia Red Knight NZ, choose a sunny or part-shaded spot and plant in well-drained soil. It’s fairly drought-tolerant once established, but regular watering during the first summer will promote healthy root development. Prune lightly after flowering to encourage bushy growth and more flowers the following year. Happily, Escallonia Red Knight has good resistance to most garden pests and diseases—making it a low-maintenance choice for both seasoned gardeners and beginners.

Perfect Partners for Escallonia Red Knight

Escallonia Red Knight pairs beautifully with a wide range of other shrubs for contrasting colours and textures. Consider grouping it with the delicate pink blooms of Escallonia 'Red Elf', or add year-round brightness with the creamy white flowers of Escallonia 'White Knight'. For an even broader palette, mix with Escallonia 'Snowbud', which features frothy white blooms, or bring in colour variation with the variegated foliage of Escallonia 'Gold Brian'.
If you’re after softer tones, the pale pink flowers of Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' make a lovely accent, and companions from our wider shrub collection such as Azalea Daphne Salmon and Hydrangea Mariesii Perfecta extend your garden’s flowering season.

Hedges, Screens and Cottage Borders

Due to its compact, bushy habit, Escallonia Red Knight is a terrific option for creating formal or informal hedges. Planting at intervals of 80cm to 1m allows them to knit together quickly, creating a lush screen for privacy or shelter. They suit cottage-style borders, contemporary gardens, and coastal landscapes alike. For extra shelter or mixed shrubbery, combine with robust species like Pittosporum Millfield Magic or the frothy, white-flowered Ceanothus 'Snow Flurry'.

Where to Buy Escallonia Red Knight NZ

Whether you’re gardening in the city or country, Escallonia Red Knight NZ is a reliable and rewarding choice. Explore our range of escallonias and complement your planting design with standout varieties like Indigofera decora and more—crafted for Kiwi gardens.

Add instant colour, lasting structure, and pollinator appeal to your landscape with Escallonia Red Knight NZ today.


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