Grevillea

Grevillea Crackles is a delightful compact, evergreen native with soft-green narrow foliage and masses of waxy orange-red spider flowers throughout winter and spring. As with all grevilleas, Crackles will attract native birds and bees and provides shelter for lizards, frogs and insects. Crackles is ideal for colourful mass planting, rockeries, or containers.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Thrives in full sun to part shade. Drought, light frost and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 0.60-1m x width 0.60-1m

Grevillea Honey Gem is a glorious, fast-growing shrub with finely divided silvery foliage, and long-lasting, golden-orange flowers. The spidery-looking flowers are rich in nectar - attracting native birds, bees and butterflies to the garden. The grevillea is ideal for mass plantings, shrubberies, floral displays, cut flowers and street planting. Honey Gem can be hard pruned or even coppiced if required.

Soil: Tolerates loam, clay and sand as long as it is well-drained.
Conditions: Full or partial sun. Drought, light frost, coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 5m x width 3-4m

A lovely medium-sized shrub with glowing red flowers for most of the year, Grevillea Ruby Jewel has a small compact habit. The neat dark green leaves, very unusual for a grevillea, provide shelter for small birds and an unobtrusive backdrop to winter-flowering shrubs. Ruby Jewel is ideal for low informal hedging and screening or as a feature plant. It can be pruned to a desired height to create low to medium hedges.

Soil: Well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun. Tolerant of drought, frost and coastal conditions.
Size: Height 1m x width 1.5m