Grevillea

Grevillea Gold Rush is a neat and compact Australian native shrub, prized for its vibrant and eye-catching display. It features slender, narrow foliage that forms a tidy habit, making it ideal for small garden spaces, borders, or container planting. Through spring and summer, it bursts into life with clusters of golden, curled flowers, each highlighted by a contrasting red stamen, creating a dazzling and cheerful show. These nectar-rich blooms are highly attractive to bees, butterflies, and nectar-feeding birds, bringing movement and life into the garden. Its compact size and low-maintenance nature make it an excellent choice for adding long-lasting colour and interest to any landscape.

Soil: well-drained soil.
Conditions: Full sun to partial sun. Drought, coastal and frost tolerant.
Size: Height 1m x width 0.8m.

Grevillea Honey Barbara is a stunning shrub with honey-orange flowers that are tipped with yellow. It blooms all year round on a relatively compact shrub and attracts nectar-feeding birds to your garden. You can use it as a screen as it has lush foliage that reaches the ground, providing a beautiful wall of fluorescent blooms. After each major flush of blooms, make sure to trim it back lightly behind the spent flower heads and feed it with an Australian native fertiliser.

Soil: Tolerates loam, clay and sand as long as it is well-drained.
Conditions: Full or partial sun. Drought, light frost tolerant.
Size: Height 3m x width 2m

Lemon Daze is a lovely, compact grevillea plant - featuring pendulous, bright yellow claw-shaped flowers with a hint of pink. These vibrant blooms provide colour to the garden for a long period from autumn through spring. The nectar-rich flowers are adored by native birds and bees, while the slender foliage resembling rosemary adds to the plant's beauty. Being low-maintenance, Lemon Daze is perfect for informal hedging, path edging, mass planting, and underplanting. After flowering, a light pruning is recommended to ensure good dense growth.

Soil: Well-drained soil
Conditions: Sunny position. Drought, frost and coastal hardy.
Size: Height 0.8-1.5m x width 0.8-1.5m

Grevillea laurifolia, commonly known as the Blue Mountains Rambler, is a hardy Australian native valued for its dense, spreading habit and ability to stabilise challenging sites. This evergreen ground cover or low-growing shrub features broad, heart-shaped leaves with a tough, leathery texture. From winter through to early summer, it puts on a striking display of wiry, toothbrush-like flowers in deep red tones, highlighted with golden tips. These nectar-rich blooms are highly attractive to birds and other pollinators, bringing life and movement into the garden during the cooler months. Well suited to embankments, slopes and areas prone to erosion, this grevillea thrives in difficult conditions where many other plants struggle. Care should be taken when pruning or planting, as the root system is sensitive to disturbance.

Soil: Prefers lighter, sandy soils.
Conditions: Sunny location. Coastal and frost tolerant.
Size: Height 0.15m x width 2-4m

Peaches and Cream is a spreading, medium-sized grevillea that will grace the garden with an outstanding floral performance. It has subtle multi-coloured flowers that bloom throughout spring, summer and autumn. Flowers are soft yellow at first, but gradually gain pink and orange colouring with age. Deeply-dissected bright green leaves add bronze highlights in the winter. Peaches and Cream is a stunning feature shrub or screen plant.

Soil: Tolerant to a wide range of soils.
Conditions: Prefers full sun or part shade conditions, drought, humidity, coast tolerance, and frost tolerance to -3C.
Size: Height 2m x width 2m