Tag: Red flowers

  • Prostrate Woolly Bush

    Prostrate Woolly Bush

    This is the Albany Woolly Bush or Adenanthos x cunninghamii, it is a most apt name for it as everyone is drawn to the soft feathery looking foliage to feel it and see if it feels as fluffy as it looks.

  • Spear Lily: Doryanthes palmeri

    Spear Lily: Doryanthes palmeri

    This is Doryanthes palmeri or the Spear Lily, a striking feature plant similar to the Gymea Lily except that it has a flower spike that leans over and isn’t spherical and the foliage is less clumping and more linear. 

  • Grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia

    Grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia

    This is Eucalyptus ‘Summer Red’ one of the best grafted Eucalyptus ficifolia, it has the largest leaf which is long and falcate to lanceolate shaped looking like a very traditional Eucalypt shape, but is also lush looking.

  • Super hardy Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’

    Super hardy Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’

    Grevillea ‘Winpara Gem’ is one of my favourite Grevilleas, I love the colour grey green leaves that are deeply deivided which look soft and feathery from a distance.

  • 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.

  • Lambertia formosa

    Lambertia formosa

    I am constantly asked for plants that are bird attracting, which then leads to the question of what type of birds are you trying to attract?