Tag: Grevillea

  • Grevillea anethifolia: Prefectly Prickly

    Grevillea anethifolia: Prefectly Prickly

    This Grevillea is commonly known as the ‘Spiny Cream Spider Flower’ and is very aptly named. The leaves have needle like points and the whole plant makes a wonderful dense prickly shelter for small birds. These photos were taken in the Illawarra Grevillea Park, I also have a grafted Grevillea anethifolia growing happily in my…

  • The Invaluable Grevillea ‘Dorothy gordon’

    The Invaluable Grevillea ‘Dorothy gordon’

    I struggle a little with some of the Large flowering Grevilleas, they tend to attract the more aggressive nectar feeding birds like Rainbow Lorikeets and Noisy Miners. These birds then tend to dominate the garden scaring away the smaller more timid birds. However I do make an exception for a hand full of large flowering…

  • Street address

    Street address

    This a grafted Grevillea and is planted on the lower side of a sandstone wall next to a Doryanthes excelsa and has been encouraged to spill over onto the street side.